DURING an investigation on the degradation of cotton by Myrothecium verrucaria it was observed that spores produced by cultures of this fungus showed under the microscope an unexpected appendage ...

The arrangement of spores on their basidia can be examined, quite easily, by excising a gill from any kind of mushroom, laying it flat on a microscope slide, and pro­tecting it from immediate ...

As a result, the team identified serine as an inhibitor of Clostridium perfringens spore formation. When observed under a microscope, it was found that serine inhibits the pathogen's cell wall ...