White rot garlic disease, also known as Sclerotica cepivorum, is an invasive fungus and is considered the most severe of garlic diseases. In my next series of posts, I will discuss various ...

Extensive sampling of basidiomycete genomes demonstrates inadequacy of the white-rot/brown-rot paradigm for wood decay fungi. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 2014; DOI: 10.1073 ...

That made it more susceptible to white rot fungus, which grows naturally in the wild and can break down wood and plastic.” Shloka started with pieces of plastic the size of a quarter.

Gusse fed chips of phenolic resin to five different species of white-rot fungus to see whether they could eat it. The team found that one species (Phanerochaete chrysosporium) turned from white to ...

White rot fungus boosts ethanol production from corn stalks, cobs and leaves. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2012 / 07 / 120711210243.htm ...

Researchers already knew that 300 million years ago, white-rot fungi evolved the unique ability to digest ... “A lot of aquatic microbiologists don’t have fungus on their minds at all,” says Dekas.

Scientists at Empa's Cellulose & Wood Materials lab in St. Gallen, Switzerland, combined balsa wood with a bioluminescent fungus. White rot fungus D. tabescens was used to craft the material which ...

The new data allows scientists a view of the mushroom's unique enzyme-based digestive apparatus which gives it the ability to attack and degrade wood, causing white rot.

They discovered the common ancestor of Agaricomycetes was a white rot fungus that emerged about 300 million years ago, at the end of the Carboniferous period. "It could be one of the explanations ...

Scientists are reporting new evidence that a white rot fungus shows promise in the search for a way to use waste corn stalks, cobs and leaves – rather than corn itself – to produce ethanol to ...