Coming up for air and sporulation

Nicholas J. Talbot ()
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Nicholas J. Talbot: the School of Biological Sciences, University of Exeter, Washington Singer Laboratories

Nature, 1999, vol. 398, issue 6725, 295-296

Abstract: Fungi and mushrooms live in damp environments but need to escape from such watery backgrounds and grow up into the air in order to sporulate. It turns out that the fungus does this with the help of masses of small proteins known as hydrophobins: these cause the surface tension of the aqueous medium to drop so that the fungal hypha can readily push its way out into the air.

Date: 1999
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