In Tasmania, Cortinarius eartoxicus causes kidney failure requiring dialysis. Similar varieties may also be in Victoria but have yet to be formally identified. Knowing which mushroom people have ...

Statin is produced by a yeast known as Monascus purpureus. According to Mount Sinai, red yeast rice contains compounds known as monacolins. One of these, monacolin K, shares the same chemical ...

They are builders, miners, carpenters and farmers. And despite a mostly undeserved reputation for being a stinging pest, Australian ants do an extraordinary amount of environmental heavy lifting.

Purple-leaved lablab bean (Lablab purpureus Ruby Moon) is, however, a perennial that grows quickly from seed to 2m and persists, bearing bicoloured flowers followed by edible pods with hints of ...

Once you’ve done that, you’ll unlock a questline where you’ll head out to The Stalks to assist the Mushroomancer Cortinarius. Complete the quest line, and you’ll have the first part of the ...

In this study, we performed a coculture system of Monascus purpureus (M. purpureus) with Lactobacillus plantarum SC-1 strain isolated from sauerkraut and found that co-culturing M. purpureus with SC-1 ...

An exception is Lutjanus peru, distributed in the Pacific. (Allen 1985). The red snappers Southern red snapper Lutjanus purpureus (Poey 1866), Pacific red snapper L. peru (Nichols & Murphy 1922), Silk ...

Multimetallic nanoparticles (MMNPs) produced by fungus-mediated synthesis have attracted a lot of interest as an environmentally friendly and sustainable nanotechnology method. Fungi are effective bio ...

The lowest IA and IT values measured were 0.52 and 0.22, respectively, found in L. purpureus as 0.52 and 0.22, respectively, and the highest observed HH value of the ratio between hypocholesterolemic ...

From 20-24 May, the great and the good of gardening descend upon the grounds of the Royal Hospital in Chelsea to attend the 2025 edition of the Royal Horticultural Society’s Chelsea Flower Show, the ...