Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Mushroom Night Light

mushroom night light

Try Newsweek for only $1.25 per week Dunlap and colleagues from the University of São Paulo in Brazil have shown in a new study that the mushrooms emit light only during the night, with a peak intensity occurring about 10 p.m. This corresponds to a period Spore germination and humidity are greatest at night so spore dispersal is most active at this time. Dunlap and his team tested their hypothesis by creating fake mushrooms powered by green LED lights and placed them in a coconut forest at night. "On a totally dark night, without any moon, if you have your light off," Waldenmaier says, "these green mushrooms are basically the only light source you see in the forest besides the fireflies." Work in Dunlap's lab showed that the glow of this particular He and his colleagues focused on the glowing mushroom Neonothopanus gardneri because it turns on its “exceptionally intense” light at night and shuts it off during the daytime. “Regulation implies an adaptive function for bioluminescence,” Dunlap The light attracts bugs which afterwards scatter its spores through the forest. The mushroom used in the experiment is a big, yellow species, called “flor de coco” (coconut flower). The experiment showed that the night-time bioluminescence of the But it seems some mushrooms go even further to reproduce. Brazilian researchers have just proven in a new study published in journal Current Biology that the fruit bodies also light up to attract spore-spreading insects at night. How to attract spore .

during daytime the light emission would be too faint to be visible. In any case, the best conditions for spore germination in canopy forests are found at night, when it is more humid. If the mushrooms glow only at night then the bioluminescence must serve The researchers found a circadian clock regulates its bioluminescence, glowing only at night. They created two sets of plastic mushroom replicas, one with LED lights replicating bioluminescence and a second set with no light. Suspecting the glow might be .



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