Word: mycologist
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...building material is growing in dozens of darkened shipping containers. The farm is named Far West Fungi, and its rusting containers are full of all sorts of mushrooms--shiitake, reishi and pom-pom, to name a few. But Philip Ross, an artist, an inventor and a seriously obsessed amateur mycologist, isn't interested in the fancy caps we like to eat. What he's after are the fungi's thin, white rootlike fibers. Underground, they form a vast network called a mycelium. Far West Fungi's dirt-free hothouses pack in each mycelium so densely that it forms a mass...
...mushrooms can be found in almost any kind of forest. But it's not a sport for the uninitiated. There are some 1,500 edible varieties and hundreds of poisonous ones, and the safe and the unsafe often look remarkably alike. Beginners are advised to take along a trained mycologist...
...mushrooms can be found in almost any kind of forest. But it's not a sport for the uninitiated. There are some 1,500 edible varieties and hundreds of poisonous ones, and the safe and the unsafe often look remarkably alike. Beginners are advised to take along a trained mycologist...
Raper, born in rural Davidson County, N.C., studied at the University of North Carolina under John Couch, a leading mycologist, and began his own exploration into the sexual development of higher fungi...
...their air-conditioned laboratories (environment in the center is controlled to the last decimal), P.H.S. researchers, working under exhaust hoods, are trying to cultivate the virus of infectious hepatitis (TIME, Feb. 8), which is often waterborne. A mycologist has isolated 150 different kinds of fungi, some of which may cause disease, from river water. And glass tanks are filled with minnows to test how much cyanide wastes can go into river water without killing nature's scavengers...