spore
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His journey with the spore started in 2022, when he and colleague Andrew Luzmore began collaborating with Hill-Maini, identifying various kitchen waste streams that might be good candidates for fermentation.
From Salon ● Nov. 12, 2024
Their framework reveals diverse functions -- such as excretion, venom spraying, prey hunting, spore dispersal, and plant guttation -- highlighting potential applications in soft robotics, additive manufacturing, and drug delivery.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 11, 2024
For a mushroom to grow, a fungal spore has to set up shop on a surface and produce mycelia.
From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2024
IRVINE, Calif. — A drone flies over a peaceful Southern California marsh and unleashes a rain of larvae-killing bacterial spore pellets.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 29, 2023
I look at the page, where the life cycle of the mushroom from spore to fruiting body is taking shape, and I know this with absolute certainty.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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"It smells horrible," he said, explaining the fungus attracts flies which help spread its spores.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
Anthrax is caused by a bacteria called Bacillus anthracis, which largely survives as spores that hide away in soil for years before entering an animal through inhalation or a cut or wound.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
They conducted tests of the house, finding mold levels as high as 2.2 million spores per cubic meter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
Lawyers on both sides often use tests that measure the number of mold spores in the air.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
Within its vegetative rods there are formed, along with spores, peculiar crystals composed of a protein substance highly toxic to certain insects, especially to the larvae of the mothlike lepidopteras.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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The Oita prefecture produces 40% of Japan’s shiitake mushrooms, spored in the trunks of sawtooth oaks.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 19, 2017
So also with the pink spored, rusty spored, black spored, and others.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke
The pink spored species should also be regarded with suspicion.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke
Most of the former are firmer, while the black spored specimens soon deliquesce.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard
The plants are small, sessile, or attached by a very short stem; closed at first, then expanding until nearly plane; disk yellow, smooth; asci clavate, 8 spored; spores hyaline, smooth.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard
Lack of rain combined with several days of hard frost in a row will prevent mushrooms from sporing in the fall.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 16, 2022
Some are just starting to bear fruiting bodies, or sporing bodies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2022
This discoloration happens as the mushroom passes through the sporing process, and can result in overwhelming bitter notes, which the drying process helps dissipate.
From Salon ● Jan. 9, 2022
For the morning glory that spreads its petals at dawn, for geese flying south in autumn, for locusts swarming every 17 years and even for lowly slime molds sporing in daily cycles, timing is everything.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 13, 2014
Streaming steam—i. e., steam at 100°C.—destroys the vegetative forms of bacteria in from fifteen to twenty minutes, and the sporing forms in from one to two hours.
From The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged. by J. W. H. (John William Henry) Eyre
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