Botanical Journal of Scotland, volume 50, issue 2, pages 121-135
In the midst of death we are in life: Further advances in the study of higher fungi
David R. Moore
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Siu Wai Chiu
2
,
M Halit Umar
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,
Clement Sanchez
4, 5
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Mushroom Experimental Station , PO Box 6042, 5960 AA , Horst , The Netherlands
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Publication type: Journal Article
Publication date: 1998-01-01
General Medicine
Abstract
Summary Senescence and death of mushroom fruit bodies are the natural terminations of their development but not the end of their life because a new batch of fruit bodies can arise directly from the old. A fungal version of programmed cell death seems to be involved in sculpturing fruit body shapes. Fungal differentiation appears to be quite flexible and greatly influenced by the immediate microenvironment. Techniques are now emerging which will enable the earliest stages in fruit body initiation to be studied.
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