fungi

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Howard said "the fungi are the storm troops of the composting process, and must be furnished with all the armament they need Crop Wastes Crop wastes were protected from moisture, stored dry under cover near the compost factory.

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  1. noun A plural of fungus.

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  • Most of you may not know that fungi were the first organisms to come to land. —  Paul Stamets on 6 ways mushrooms can save the world
  • I became interested in entomopathogenic fungi -- fungi that kill insects. —  Paul Stamets on 6 ways mushrooms can save the world
  • The term transformation is preferred to describe non-viral DNA transfer in bacteria and non-animal eukaryotic cells such as fungi, algae and plants. —  MyLinkVault Newest Links
  • The nutrients absorbed by the fungi are then passed back into the roots of the plants providing a major benefit to the plant -- improved uptake of soil phosphorus.
  • Immunomagnetic microbeads were modified to create magnetic opsonins that were used to cleanse flowing human whole blood of Candida albicans fungi, a leading cause of sepsis-related deaths. —  Medgadget
 

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