Marked articles 'mushroom'

The mushroom which fabricates some oil

By Denis Delbecq • November 4th, 2008 in 11:13

They always need smaller one than one. Jobs of Gary Strobel, to the University of Montana (United States) prove him one more time. The scientist discovered that the mushroom Gliocladium roseum produces hydrocarbons when the oxygen is absent. A cocktail of substance which is not without reminding of the diesel fuel.
Strobel is not


A mushroom eliminates the uranium of the polluted soil

By Olivier Donnars • June 2nd, 2008 in 22:26

How to eliminate the depleted uranium, the not very radioactive but very toxic metal, which pollutes some soil? By growing filamentous mushrooms there, answers the biologist Marina Fomina, of the university of Dundee (Scotland), which discovered that not only these mushrooms grow very well in the presence of this metal, but also that they can transform it. In [...]