My first step to becoming a naturalist was seeing a mushroom called Exsudoporus frostii, or Apple Bolete (pictured above). I was walking in the Middlesex Fells in Massachusetts and something blood red caught my eye. I thought it was trash. It turned out to be a deep red mushroom with a funky-looking webbed stem, as […] The post Small Wonders: Every fungus has a story appeared first on Maine Audubon.| Maine Audubon
© Dr. Robert Scott MycoTechnology, a US company using advanced fermentation technology to create value-added ingredients, has appointed Dr. Robert Scott to its Board of Directors. Scott is a food and beverage industry executive with over 25 years of experience across the corporate, academic, and nonprofit sectors. He was previously President of R&D at Kraft Heinz and Vice President of R&D at Coca-Cola, where he led new ingredient discovery and sweetener technology development. Additionally, ...| Cultivated X
A casket isn’t a word that comes to mind when you think of mushrooms. However, innovations like mushroom-based leather, building materials, and compostable packaging show…| Foodbeast
....That sentiment holds true for this new set of Canada Post fungi stamps, released today, featuring my illustrations of five different fungi species:| Emily S. Damstra
The underground fungi networks that help sustain Earth’s ecosystems are in need of urgent conservation action, according to researchers from the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks (SPUN). The scientists found that 90 percent of mycorrhizal fungi biodiversity hotspots were located in unprotected ecosystems, the loss of which could lead to lower carbon emissions […] The post Earth’s Underground Fungi Networks Need Urgent Protection: Study appeared first on EcoWatch.| EcoWatch
This is an easy vegetarian pan fried oyster mushroom recipe cooked with tamari / soy sauce, sesame oil, garlic, ginger, and lemon juice.| Eat Simple Food
Deep within Scottish pine woods, nestled between humid mossy carpets and scattered pine brash on the forest floor, the story of a tiny, unassuming plant: the One-flowered Wintergreen (Moneses uniflora), is beginning to unfold. Beneath its solitary, nodding white flower, and small rosetted leaves, lies a hidden, intricate survival strategy sheathed within the soil.| Botanics Stories
The area between your toes is packed with sweat glands, and when we wrap our feet in socks and shoes, we trap that moisture in a warm, humid cocoon that’s ideal for microbial growth.| Study Finds
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The expression of symptoms of viral infections is a byproduct of complex virus-host molecular pathways.| News-Medical
Raving mushroom zombies aren't as far-fetched as you might think.| The Science of Fiction
A sweaty bearded man was making his way through the 19th century Nicaraguan jungle, when he stumbled upon a trail of ants. The explorer, Thomas Belt, noticed the ants were carrying leaves. As Belt so often did on such occasions, he got out his notebook and began to draw them. When he looked closer, he saw that the ants were not eating the leaves, as thousands before him had supposed — in fact, they were feeding them to something: fungi. Belt was the first Westerner to record ant agriculture...| Scienceline
The Last of Us is back on April 13 and this season is more realistic than ever.| www.msl.ubc.ca
In this episode of the Future Natures podcast, we talk to Maymana Arefin, the founder of Fungi Futures, a project learning with fungi to map radical alternative futures. The post Podcast: Fungi and radical futures appeared first on Future Natures.| Future Natures
Naplasol, a Belgian-based protein manufacturer under the VEOS group, is launching its newly acquired Promyc mycoprotein line at the Food Ingredients Europe| Cultivated X
California's The Better Meat Co. (BMC) announces it has received approval from the Singapore Food Authority to sell its flagship, single-ingredient Rhiza| Cultivated X
Cornell researchers have combined robots with an unlikely organism to create “biohybrid” machines capable of responding to their environment.| The Debrief
Hen of the Woods – Identification, Edibility, Distribution, Medicinal Uses, Ecology, Sustainable Harvesting| Galloway Wild Foods
Sigrid Jakob and other citizen mycologists are classifying fungal species before some fungi disappear.| Scienceline
Local mycologists suspect death caps—huge and abundant in the Bay Area—may be competing with chanterelles underground.| Bay Nature