Results Appropriate temperature, humidity, culture proportion and inoculate volume are confirmed and the growing content of polysaccharide in fruiting body can be increased by heteroauxing and zeatin.
Puffballs are named for the fact that puffs of spores are released when the dry and powdery tissues of the mature spherical fruiting body (basidiocarp) are disturbed.
Besides a key to the genera, a key to the species, as well as descriptions of thalline and fruiting morphology, chemistry, and distribution range are provided for each included species.
Their work reveals that muscarine, another compound hallucinogenic to the mammalian brain, has been produced in the fruiting bodies of fungi for 60 million years.
Split gills – which grow on decaying wood, and whose fruiting bodies resemble undulating waves of tightly packed coral – generated the most complex " sentences" of all.