an international team of scientists confirmed that the mushroom "Armillaria ostoyae" has genes that help it grow to be the largest living organism on the surface of the globe.
As an example of that information , scientists pointed out in an interview with the site bioRxiv to mushroom "Armillaria ostoyae" which grows in one of the reserves of America , Oregon, where he confirmed that spun the innate (or strings of fungal branching) has grown dramatically to form a huge biomass weighs nearly 600 tons and stretches over an area of Is estimated at 8.4 square kilometers, where it is estimated that the age of this mushroom more than 2000 years.
As a result of the magnitude of this "fungal mass" and its extension to parts of the surrounding forest and its elimination, scientists called it deadly fungus.
It is worth noting that this mushroom is not the only one to join the series of giant organisms, in the state of Michigan, the US scientists also found a mushroom giant type of "Armillaria gallica", extended fungal threads on a wide area estimated at 370 square meters.
To understand the reason for the magnitude of the breakfast, the scientists compared the genes of four strains of the "Armillaria", "ostoyae, cepistipes, gallica and solidipes" with the genes of a large number of other breakfast, where it was found that the honey breakfast of the Armillaria strain have special genetic mutations linked to the condition, The fungal is divided and extends out of the ordinary compared to other breakfasts.
The fungus is a parasitic organism of the group of real-core organisms, which are characterized by digesting their food externally, unlike other organisms. Mushrooms live in many natural environments such as soil, water, and even air.
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STOPWell described