>>2301686yes. i recently leaned that lichen hyphae can penetrate stone up to 20mm. i always thought they simply anchored the thallus to the surface
>>2302668based. i've been meaning to get into thin layer chromatography, but my lab is run by pussies who think nothing of storing huge tubs NaOH yet freak out at the thought of buying sulfuric acid
got some frozen pleurotus tuber-regium metabolites i've been dying to fractionate
>>2305386something that microbes will teach you: there is no hierarchical taxonomy of life. it's more of an ever-shifting network (flat structure) defined by relative genetic distances
>>2303900yeah, i tried once using some meme recipe found online. it was like buttermilk, algae, lichen powder, sugar, and some other nonsense. all i got was flies and a rotten milk smell
>>2305422>basidiomycete yeastwtf? that's awesome. i know that yeasts grew filamentous instead of by budding on nutrient-deprived media, but thought they were all ascomycetes. really cool
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