Spore the merrier: Boom in mushrooms grown on Belgian beer
In Belgium, a country reputed for its beer, mushrooms nourished on a byproduct from the brew are doing booming business.
In Belgium, a country reputed for its beer, mushrooms nourished on a byproduct from the brew are doing booming business.
Agriculture
Oct 5, 2022
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Andrew Adamatzk, a professor at the University of the West of England's Unconventional Computing Laboratory, UWE, in the U.K. has found that the electrical signal clusters sent by several types of fungi resemble human vocabularies. ...
Local and Indigenous communities warn of a significant decrease in the abundance of wild edible plants and mushrooms that negatively impacts their nutrition and food security, from local to global scales. This is the result ...
Environment
Feb 22, 2022
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Associate Professor Suetsugu Kenji (Kobe University Graduate School of Science) and independent photographer Gomi Koichi have observed a Japanese squirrel (Sciurus lis) routinely feeding on well-known species of poisonous ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 3, 2022
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An Honorary Professor from the University of Stirling has made a breakthrough in resolving a key conflict in the world's quest for net zero—how to reconcile tree planting and food production.
Environment
Nov 29, 2021
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Harvesting wild mushrooms requires an expert eye to distinguish between the delicious and the inedible. Misidentification can have a range of consequences, from a disgusting taste and mild illness to organ failure and even ...
Ecology
Aug 20, 2021
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Costing anywhere from 15 to 70 dollars per mushroom depending on the quality, matsutake mushrooms are some of the most valuable edible fungi in the world. Revered for their delicate scent, matsutake mushrooms are cooked in ...
Ecology
Apr 14, 2021
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A new system for evidence-based mushroom classification seeks to reduce poisoning events and clarify edibility status, according to a review published this year.
Plants & Animals
Feb 23, 2021
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A Velcro-like fastener with a microscopic design that looks like tiny mushrooms could mean advances for everyday consumers and scientific fields like robotics.
General Physics
Jan 19, 2021
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Cultivating mushrooms produces a lot of waste. For every kilogram of mushrooms produced, about three kilograms of soil-like material containing straw, manure and peat is left behind. In the EU, this results in more than 3 ...
Environment
Nov 18, 2020
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