Most yeasts and molds are heat-sensitive and destroyed by heat treatments at temperatures of 140-160°F (60-71°C). Some molds make heat-resistant spores, however, and can survive… Read More »What Temperature Kills Fungal Spores?
Without water, fungi are unable to grow or reproduce. A key to preventing and controlling fungal growth in things such as buildings can be to… Read More »Can Fungi Survive Without Water?
Soap and Baking Soda People who want to exterminate mushroom spores from their gardens sometimes use soap or baking soda instead of salt. Spraying spores… Read More »What Kills Mushroom Spores?
Without fungi to aid in decomposition, all life in the forest would soon be buried under a mountain of dead plant matter. Would we exist… Read More »What Would Happen If Fungi Didn’T Exist?
The individual fungus is potentially immortal, because it continues to grow at the hyphal tips as long as conditions remain favourable. It is possible that,… Read More »Are Fungi Immortal?
The researchers found that land plants had evolved on Earth by about 700 million years ago and land fungi by about 1,300 million years ago… Read More »Which Came First Fungi Or Plants?
Kingdom Fungi, one of the oldest and largest groups of living organisms, is a monophyletic group, meaning that all modern fungi can be traced back… Read More »Are Fungi The Oldest Lineage?
Spores can survive for thousands of years, frozen in the permafrost (Kochkina et al., 2012), with the oldest viable spores extracted after 250 million years… Read More »How Long Can Fungi Spores Live?
Very tiny animals, some too small to see, live among the rotting wood, feeding on it. These are called decomposers, and include earthworms, fungi, and… Read More »What Animals Live On A Log?
What do these words mean? Is this dead tree an abiotic or biotic factor in this ecosystem? A: Biotic, because it was once a living… Read More »Is A Rotting Log Biotic Or Abiotic?