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Fungi generate their own mini wind to go the distance
    #13256521 - 09/27/10 10:04 PM (13 years, 7 months ago)

Fungi generate their own mini wind to go the distance
September 27, 2010 - NewScientist.com



A good breeze is just what a fungus needs to spread its seed, but what if the weather doesn't oblige? It turns out some species generate their own jets of air, increasing how far their spores travel more than 30-fold.

Apothecial fungi have cup-shaped fruiting bodies lined with spore-bearing cells called asci. The microscopic size of their spores means they might only travel a few millimetres if ejected individually. To overcome this limitation, the fungi synchronise spore ejections, creating a small, localised air stream.

Marcus Roper of the University of California, Berkeley, and his colleagues used high-speed cameras, lasers and models to film spore ejections and calculate the precise speed and motion of each spore in the crop pathogen Sclerotinia sclerotiorum and seven other apothecial fungi.

This showed how the combined effect of thousands of almost simultaneous ejections creates a small air jet, which carries the spores over much greater distances. The team found that synchronised ejections send the spores 10 centimetres away, compared to just 3 millimetres if each asci ejects alone.

Ejection chain reaction

The videos also showed how synchronisation is achieved. An external cue – possibly a drop in air pressure – triggers the ejection of pioneer spores, causing mechanical changes in the surrounding tissue that trigger more ejections.

The researchers say the mechanism could be common to all 8000 apothecial species.

US farmers spend around $1 billion per year defending crops including tomatoes and sunflowers from S. sclerotiorum. "Understanding the basic biology of dispersal could be enormously advantageous to understanding and improving control," says Roper.

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Re: Fungi generate their own mini wind to go the distance [Re: veggie]
    #13256774 - 09/27/10 10:47 PM (13 years, 7 months ago)

Organic wind energy,totally green


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