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You get fungi, you get fish, you get plants, you get amphibia, you get reptiles, and then, of course, you get the dinosaurs.
And this leads to severe repercussions, including episodes of famine in developing countries, large reduction of income for farmers and distributors, high prices for consumers and risk of exposure to mycotoxin, poison produced by fungi.
One feature of fungi is that they cannot move and only grow by extension to form a sophisticated network, the mycelium.
In 1884, Anton de Bary, the father of plant pathology, was the first to presume that fungi are guided by signals sent out from the host plant, meaning a plant upon which it can lodge and subsist, so signals act as a lighthouse for fungi to locate, grow toward, reach and finally invade and colonize a plant.
Everything is covered in invisible ecosystems made of tiny lifeforms: bacteria, viruses and fungi.
All the while, life around us kept evolving: more bacteria, more fungi, lots of fish, fish, fish.
Those fungi and bacteria are as highly evolved as humans.
They are part of an entire cavalcade of mind-controlling parasites, of fungi, viruses, and worms and insects and more that all specialize in subverting and overriding the wills of their hosts.
Each tree, each tree top, has up to 10,000 species of insects in it, let alone the millions of species of fungi, bacteria, etc.
Coral reefs are hardworking animals and plants and microbes and fungi.
You might say it comes from plants, animals, or even fungi, but you'd probably rather not think about the rotting organisms and poop that feed those plants, animals, and fungi.
Trillions of bacteria, viruses, and fungi live on or inside of us, and maintaining a good, balanced relationship with them is to our advantage.
Microbes and fungi live throughout this network of roots.
Scientists have discovered that some bacteria and fungi can produce minerals, including the calcium carbonate found in autogenous healing.
When the cracks seal, the bacteria or fungi will make spores and go dormant once more— ready to start a new cycle of self-healing when cracks form again.
I want to present to you a suite of six mycological solutions, using fungi, and these solutions are based on mycelium.
We call it mycophobia, the irrational fear of the unknown, when it comes to fungi.
In fact, we're more closely related to fungi than we are to any other kingdom.
Fungi don't like to rot from bacteria, and so our best antibiotics come from fungi.
Most of you may not know that fungi were the first organisms to come to land.
So, fungi and mycelium sequester carbon dioxide in the form of calcium oxalates.
Sunlight was cut off, and fungi inherited the Earth.
Those organisms that paired with fungi were rewarded, because fungi do not need light.
More recently, at Einstein University, they just determined that fungi use radiation as a source of energy, much like plants use light.
So, the prospect of fungi existing on other planets elsewhere, I think, is a forgone conclusion, at least in my own mind.
Preserving the genome of these fungi in the old-growth forest I think is absolutely critical for human health.
So, I went to the EPA homepage, and they were recommending studies with metarhizium species of a group of fungi that kill carpenter ants, as well as termites.
You could fly 100 Ph.D. students under the umbrella of this concept, because my supposition is that entomopathogenic fungi, prior to sporulation, attract the very insects that are otherwise repelled by those spores.
And we found over 100,000 species of bacteria and fungi that live in our dust bunnies, thousands more that live on our clothes or in our showers.
Partnering with these roots are symbiotic fungi called mycorrhizae.
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