Mold begins to show as white cottony mycelium after five to six days, and slowly turns to "blue" (bluish green).
These two changes appear to be due to enzymes secreted by the mycelium of the Penicillium Camemberti and Oidium lactis which constitute the most active factors in the ripening.
Other molds forming loose cottony mycelium are brushed off if they appear.
Mycelium of fungus seems uncommon in the air, but is sometimes found.
Through the winter the shoots are covered thickly with the brown mycelium and in the spring the spores contained in the perithecia germinate and start the infection anew, as in the case of the European mildew.
After a time the mycelium becomes rusty brown and produces the winter form of the fungus.
The white mycelium gives the leaves of the plant the appearance of having been whitewashed (fig.
The mycelium of the fungus grows into the cambium and practically girdles the stems.
The mycelium spreads mostly in the outer layers, which though they turn deep brown remain firm.
Uredineae, and sections under the microscope will show the mycelium in the tissues beneath.
This is well shown by the intercellular mycelium of Exoacus and Exobasidium, and the latter affords an excellent illustration of the far-reaching effects of hyphae on the cells (of Vaccinium) into which they do not penetrate.
In many of these cases the dying-back of the twigs is expedited owing to the mycelium invading the medullary rays and wood vessels, and so obstructing the transpiration current.
The wilting and shrivelling of Clover is sometimes due to Sclerotinia, the mycelium of which pervades the roots and stock, on which the sclerotia may be found.
Lucerne is similarly killed in Europe by the barren mycelium of Leptosphaeria, which may be found as a purple mat on the roots.
It can also be done by planting a minute mycelium of Botrytis laterally on a young organ--e.
Portion of the Mycelium of Dry Rot, from Timber and Some of its Diseases, by H.
Portion of the mycelium of dry rot or tear fungus, Merulius lachrymans.
I imagine that in both cases the mycelium must consume all the matter on which it can subsist.
It is that of fairy rings, which are believed to spread from a centre, and when they intersect the intersecting portion dies out, as the mycelium cannot grow where it has grown during previous years.
The mycelium or spawn of this fungus infecting grains of rye and wheat.
The long, branching filaments of which the mycelium (and the greater part of the plant) of a fungus is formed.
And from this also the new ferment fluid constantly produced, and tracking along the tissues of the branches, conveys the Coryneum infection beyond the places in which its mycelium can be found.
It comes out in spots like those which often appear spontaneously on the green young branches of peach trees that have the gum disease; and in these spots it is usual to find Coryneum stromata or mycelium filaments.
I have never seen luminous flowers or roots, nor do I know of any authenticated instance of such, which may not be explained by the presence of mycelium or of animal life.
Spores, which land at these damaged areas, germinate and produce a microscopic mycelium which attacks and spreads throughout the heartwood.
Rhizomorphs are visible strands of compacted mycelium (fungus material) that appear as black or reddish-brown "shoestrings.
Eventually the mycelium will aggregate and break through the bark to form the reproductive stage, either before or after the death of the host.
Green oak, oak wood colored green by the growth of the mycelium of certain fungi.
Defn: The long, branching filaments of which the mycelium (and the greater part of the plant) of a fungus is formed.
He concluded that iron and zinc are of no use in the nutrition of Sterigmatocystis nigra, but that the zinc retards the development of mycelium when food is abundant, killing it if it is badly nourished.
It is noticeable that the mycelium arising from the germination of conidia of P.
These bodies are, in fact, the outer shells of so many acorns, embedded in and hollowed out by the mycelium of Polyporus sulphureus.
In the infested timber are to observed radial and other crevices filled with the dense felt-like mycelium formed by the common growth of the innumerable branched filaments.
This is a block of wood containing an enormous irregularly spheroidal mass of the white felted mycelium of this fungus, Polyporus sulphureus.
Two cells of Osmundites, filled, the one with starch granules, and the other with mycelium of a fungus.
This specimen was silicified; starch grains contained in its cells, and the mycelium of a parasitic fungus traversing some of them, were perfectly preserved.
The bricks are now placed in a mild covered hot-bed, with a bottom heat of 55° to 65°, and left there until the clouded appearance indicates that the mycelium has extended throughout the mass.
The spawn is the mycelium of the fungus held in a mass or "brick" of earth and manure.
The mass should be kept in heat until the whole of it assumes a somewhat cloudy look, but not until the threads of the mycelium can be seen.
When these are tolerably well dried, mycelium from a mushroom bed or from other bricks is inserted in the side of each brick.
This mycelium will start to grow as soon as it is supplied with a new moist coffee leaf to nourish it.
Although the fungus does not produce spores, the leaves die and dry, and are blown away, carrying with them the dried mycelium of the fungus.
It is not rare, however, to see the individual sporangia perfectly isolated and disembarrassed of their filament of mycelium floating in the water.
When they are perfectly developed, they are distinctly separated from their filament of mycelium by a septum--that is to say, by limiting lines plainly marked.
The smallest portion of a filament of mycelium evidently possesses the faculty of producing the new individuals.
Under favorable conditions, that is, with moisture, heat, and the presence of vegetable matter in decomposition, the filaments of mycelium increase in length.
When the wood has begun to decay by the contact of the impure water, the filaments of mycelium of the Limnophysalis hyalina penetrate into the decayed wood, which becomes a fertile soil for the intermittent fever fungi.
The mycelium is the most important part of the fungous growth.
The presence of the mycelium in wood tissue can readily be told by the discolored and disintegrated appearance of the wood.
If the fruiting body is removed, another soon takes its place, but if the entire mycelium is cut out, the fungus will never come back.
The only thing we can do in a case like that is to get the kernels in to St. Louis and destroy the mold growth or spores on the surface before it can grow so that the fungous mycelium is visible to the eye.
Further it may also be possible for spores or bits of mycelium to be transported upward in the sap stream and cause new infections higher up in the tree.
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