http://mycorant.com Seen any good fungus movies lately? Sat, 19 May 2012 16:37:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://mycorant.com/phytophthora-its-not-a-fungus/ http://mycorant.com/phytophthora-its-not-a-fungus/#comments Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:44:21 +0000 Philip http://mycorant.com/?p=139 A tweet sent by fungalgenomes makes the point that Phytopthora infestans, causative of agent of late blight, is not a fungus. Okay I agree. It’s a fungal protist, an Oomycete (commonly known as a water mold) occupying a place that is not exactly fungal, not exactly animal, not completely a typical protist. Oomyctes were formerly considered fungi, but not anymore (by most people who are into that sort of thing).

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