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Coconut seed farms eyed for synthetic variety
Ramon :: Philippines | about 16 hours ago
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Philippines�The Department of Agriculture through the Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA) is eyeing the establishment of more coconut seed farms in strategic coconut-growing areas for its latest hybrid, the Orgullo Tall SV San Ramon Coconut Variety. Otherwise...
Tags: coconut variety, Philippines, Ramon, Environment, Coconut, Philippine Coconut Authority, Beauveria bassiana, Copra, Business Finance, Arecaceae, Seed, Beetle, Brontispa longissima, Biological pest control, Insects, Flora of India, Hypocreales, Tropical agriculture, Fungus, Flora of Pakistan
'Herbal mushroom' smugglers held
Shanghai :: China | 6 days ago
Credibility Police say about 90kg (200lb) of the fungus was seized in the Ladakh region near China...Caterpillar fungus is found about 5,000m (16,500ft) above sea level. It must be harvested in freezing monsoon rains in the alpine pastures of the Himalayan mountains...
Tags: China, Shanghai, Fungus, Caterpillar Inc., Mushroom, Hypocreales, Caterpillar fungus, Cordyceps
Kew's giant fungi collection
London :: United Kingdom | 6 days ago
Credibility The biggest collection of fungi in the world will be created this week as Kew Gardens takes delivery of more than 400,000 specimens. The fungi will be added to Kew's stock of more than 800,000 specimens to form a giant scientific collection. Researchers...
Tags: United Kingdom, London, Penicillin, Penicillium chrysogenum, Fungus, Penicillium, Alexander Fleming, Microbiology, Fungi, Eli Lilly and Company, Health Medical Pharma, Disaster Accident
Mushroom mania: Prepping for the fungi fair is a rush
Eureka :: CA :: USA | 7 days ago
Credibility At noon on Saturday, more than a dozen volunteers were unwrapping mushrooms of various types, much like unpacking ornaments for a Christmas tree, preparing them for sorting. The fungi were from the four corners of northwest California, brought in by as...
Tags: Erik Olson, Joann Olson, Joey Bell, Eureka, Mushroom, Psilocybin mushrooms, Mycology, Edible mushroom, Fungus, Vegan cuisine, Vegetarian cuisine, Fungi
No fungus found in OSU building where women took ill
Columbus :: NM :: USA | 9 days ago
Credibility The fungus that causes a lung disease was not found in Ohio State University's Hitchcock Hall, according to preliminary results from tests the university performed last week. Meanwhile, a third woman says that she contracted histoplasmosis after she spent...
Tags: Hitchcock Hall, contracted histoplasmosis, Columbus, Snell-Hitchcock, Fungal diseases, Histoplasmosis, Fungus
Magic Pillow: Get Rid Of Wrinkles While You Sleep!
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 9 days ago
Credibility Heather Locklear attributes her unlined appearance to being a “back sleeper.” Dermatologists recommend that you don’t sleep on your face to avoid wrinkles...Buy this cooper pillow from Cupron , who pioneered the use of the mineral in products. It’s made...
Tags: Los Angeles, Fungus, Fabric softener, Sock, SOCKS, Footwear, Deodorant, Odor, Health Medical Pharma
Corn fungus fears easing in North and South Dakota
Sioux Falls :: SD :: USA | 12 days ago
Credibility A fungus problem with the potential to create widespread damage to corn crops in the Dakotas for perhaps the first time in memory might not be as ominous as first feared. Initial tests are showing that the corn ear molds that are showing up in North Dakota...
Tags: South Dakota State University, North Dakota State University, Marcia McMullen, Bill Chase, plant pathologists, Sioux Falls, Fungus, Mold health issues, Seed, Fungicide use in the United States, Maize, South Dakota, Mycotoxin, Environment
Police looking for meth lab find hallucinogenic mushrooms
Somerset :: NJ :: USA | 15 days ago
Credibility Police have confiscated thousands of suspected hallucinogenic psilocybin mushrooms from a home in Pulaski County. Police charged Robert Keith Clark, 45, of Eubank with drug trafficking. State police said in a news release that officers found the mushrooms...
Tags: Eubank, Somerset, Mushroom, Fungus, Kentucky State Police, Legal status of psilocybin mushrooms, Entheogens, Psilocybin mushrooms, Psilocybin, Methamphetamine, Illegal drug trade, Psychedelics dissociatives and deliriants, Organophosphates, Law Crime
White-nose syndrome: disease that could push many bat species to extinction
Bats have been dying by the millions over the past two years from a mysterious fungus scientists are calling white-nose syndrome, due to the whitish markings the disease causes on the bat’s face and wings. Bats are ecologically critical in the battle...
Tags: White-nose syndrome, bat species, US Fish and Wildlife, Center for Biological Diversity, bees, biologists, fungus
New Breakthrough in GMO to Help Prevent Blindness
Two new genes,from a fungus, Blakeslea trispora that trigger the production of Beta carotene have been added to an edible fungus,Monascus purpureus , that is commonly added to fermentedrice and noodles in rural Asia . Beta...
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