Re: Predaceous Fungi

From: SCHLAUER@chemie.uni-wuerzburg.de
Date: Sun Jan 10 1999 - 09:23:06 PST


Date:          Sun, 10 Jan 1999 09:23:06 
From: SCHLAUER@chemie.uni-wuerzburg.de
To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com
Message-Id: <aabcdefg63$foo@default>
Subject:       Re: Predaceous Fungi

Dear Christensen,

> recently it has been learned that a number
> of species of gilled fungi also attack and
> consume the small roundworms known
> as nematodes. The oyster mushroom,
> Pleurotus ostreatus, for example, grows
> on decaying wood (a, b).

The paper in which this stuff was published originally (Science
224:76-78, 1984) is *fifteen* (!) years old. Do you still consider this
as "recent"? Whisky and Cognac of comparable age are usually (and quite
legitimately) sold as very old.

What is the news?

Kind regards
Jan



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