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The Toxin That Helps Oyster #Mushrooms Devour Worms https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/18/science/oyster-mushrooms-carnivorous-toxins.html
Carnivorous #mushroom paralyzes, kills #nematodes via a volatile ketone https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ade4809
It’s not just the #OysterMushroom. Some #fungi craft sticky nets laced with tempting scents to snare their prey. Others create collars that constrict as the worm struggles, immobilizing it as the fungus’s #hyphae penetrate its body. Some release sickle-shape spores that, when swallowed by a nematode, wreak havoc from within.
Carnivorous #mushroom paralyzes, kills #nematodes via a volatile ketone https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ade4809
It’s not just the #OysterMushroom. Some #fungi craft sticky nets laced with tempting scents to snare their prey. Others create collars that constrict as the worm struggles, immobilizing it as the fungus’s #hyphae penetrate its body. Some release sickle-shape spores that, when swallowed by a nematode, wreak havoc from within.
Carnivorous oyster mushrooms can kill roundworms with “nerve gas in a lollipop” - Enlarge / Oyster mushrooms (Pleurotus ostreatus) serenely growing on a ... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1910286 #molecularbiology #chemistry #mushrooms #nematodes #science #biology #ecology #toxins #fungi
Carnivorous oyster mushrooms can kill roundworms with “nerve gas in a lollipop”
Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry ID'd the culprit as the volatile ketone 3-octanone.Ars Technica
