Word: fungi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...secret of the leucaena's rapid growth is in its roots; they extend as deep as the tree is tall. That enables it to soak up nutrients below the reach of other plants. Growing on the leucaena roots are fungi called mycorrhizae that help by absorbing phosphorus compounds that cannot be used by most plants, and converting them into forms that can nourish the tree. Then too the steady dropping of leaves provides rich nutrition for other plants...
...collecting the parasitic red spores in the air, proved that the disease blew seasonally across the nation. A member of the University of Minnesota faculty (1909-53) and the Rockefeller Foundation, "Stak" increased the world's wheat yields by breeding new, hardier strains as the fungi also continued to evolve. "Find out all you have to buck," he once said, "and then breed 'em tough...
...showers, fungi...
...able to rid itself of the iron added by repeated blood donations, it accumulates to such an extent that by the age of 20 the heart, liver and other organs can be threatened. Looking for a way to remove the excess iron, the Rockefeller scientists turned to bacteria and fungi. In the course of billions of years, these tiny organisms have evolved complex molecules that gather up iron essential for their survival. The researchers developed similar compounds-chelating agents (from the Greek word for claw)- of their own. Injectable chemicals of this kind have been available for some time...
Avalanche of Protest. The cathedral's sacramental gloom, however, comes in part from a buildup of dirt, pollutants, fungi and algae on the windows over years of exposure. At the end of 1976, the French government's Department of Historic Monuments finished a three-year restoration program on three of Chartres's most famous 12th century windows, all on the west wall above the main entrance of the cathedral: The Tree of Jesse, The Childhood of Christ and The Passion. The windows were taken down, disassembled piece by piece and sent to a government laboratory outside Paris...