I am doing an individual research project and experiment in which I am testing what color of light (blue, red, or green) is most effective in making the fungus release the most amount of spores. I need to write about the importance of my experiment, but the best I have is this allows scientists to become more effecient in breeding useful fungus (mine is not useful though). If you have any ideas, please respond.
2007-03-22 08:33:18 · 2 answers · asked by Grace 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Botany
There is quiet a bit of research on the effect of light on the growth and reproduction of fungi. Light responses formally believed to be restricted to plants are shown to apply to fungi as well. Check out the following links and more like them and you may discover that the importance of your research is more useful than you think.
The effect of light on growth and sporulation of certain fungi
www.springerlink.com/index/LH51J70X18949774.pdf - Similar pages
Seeing the rainbow: light sensing in fungi
www.mbio.uni-karlsruhe.de/ami/download/2006_purschwitz_et_al.pdf - Similar pages
Fungi - Where Light Meets Dark (www.wherelightmeetsdark.com)
2007-03-26 05:41:52 · answer #1 · answered by john h 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fungi are not photosynthetic. Their growth and maturation is not light dependent.
They depend upon the food available and temperature.
So direct your research in that direction.
2007-03-25 23:28:38 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋