#pleurotus — Public Fediverse posts
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#Pleurotus aka #OysterMushroom that lives on a piece of dead wood with not much #nitrogen can produce a large fruiting body that is full of proteins and hence nitrogen. A research study shows that the presence of chicken manure on grass straws does not affect the yield of various species of mushrooms, meaning that these mushrooms do not need to obtain nitrogen from chicken manure. Yet no mushroom has any known enzymes for #nitrogenfixation. This is very puzzling.
https://www.ajol.info/index.php/tjfnc/article/view/40728 -
A carnivorous #fungus (#Pleurotus ostreatus, the common oyster #mushroom!) kills #nematodes with a toxin that paralyses the worm and triggers #apoptosis. The toxin is a ketone that is stored in toxocysts that release their content when the worm touches them.
The dissolved worm then is then fed on by the mushroom.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ade4809