I couldn't NOT share something this awesome and newbie friendly. Thank you for giving us a foundation of fungi biology, and my new favorite word: spitzenkorper!
I have no previous knowledge of mycology, other than a fascination with mushrooms and mold, but this was incredibly clear, informative, and easy to follow. Very grateful that content like this exists on this platform
Glad it was helpful! We put a ton of energy into this one, unfortunately it doesn't get the love some other videos get... but I appreciate that there are folks out there who are benefiting from it!
I was looking for a summary on the evolution, ecology, and life cycle of fungi, and it turns out this was EXACTLY what I wanted to hear! Additionally, understanding why mycology still remains a subset of botany in most higher educational institutions today is now so crystal clear! Thanks to your well-explained history of mycology as a subset of botany, I can appreciate that it is still taught this way in institutions, and even more excitingly, I can value the fact that there is so much exciting work for US to do to make it emerge as its own distinct field of study! After a few short decades, I hope we can bring mycology the recognition it deserves as a unique and valuable field all its own. And its thanks to people like you that we will soon achieve this goal! Thanks! Wishing you all the success in the world, you are a fantastic teacher!
Thanks for the kind words and watching this video. It was a real effort to research, put together, shoot and edit. Doesn't get as much love as other videos of ours, but I think it's a real hidden gem ;)
Excellent! Wonderfully production! Have accelerated my interest in mushrooms growing. Particularly for medicinals. Very much appreciate your work and explanation. Best seen so far.
Excellent video! I love this kind of educational content. Also, I never realized how much I need a channel that shows time lapsed mushroom growing to chill music!!😅 Looking forward to more videos
More fungal biology than I needed to know. I just want to grow culinary mushrooms and eat them! Really good quality production for those who want to delve deeply into the fungal life cycle down to a cellular level. I loved the time lapse videos towards the end of mushrooms growing in large clusters. The woman narrating was interesting. Did she get a credit?
Excellent. especially, the explanation of alteration of generations. so genetic recombination occurs only in the short time before spore formation. Before that, the haploid hyphae are clones of their spores, have no genetic variation. After meiosis, the four daughter cells are all genetically different.
My university doesnt have a mycology class. I am a biotech and biology dual major. But i want to get masters in virology and mycology. And someday do a dr on fungal viruses
"1.8 million meters per second" I listened to it twice to make sure that's what was said. I'm a bit skeptical that any mushrooms are spitting out spores at that velocity. That's 1/166 the speed of light, or about four million miles per hour in units that will be more familiar to a lot of people. Dropping the "million" seems more realistic and still very fast for a tiny object moving through the air. I did enjoy the presentation, though.
It's kinda weird when people explain things like this. You can tell there are huge holes in what they are saying and in the logic. Even the categorizations are not without flaws.
You're certainly right that this is aimed as a very beginner audience and leaves out much detail that might be found in a college level mycology course. If there are other suggestions for future improvement or characterization, please share your thoughts.
You might want to understand what you actually talk about instead of copy pasting what you read off the Web. No spore is capable of being ejected at 1.8 million metres per second. You probably misunderstood this excerpt. "“The fastest spores travelled more than 1 million times their own ‘body’ length in one second,” says Money. “A 1.8-metre human travelling at 1 million times his or her body length in one second would be travelling at a velocity of 1.8 million meters per second, which is more than 5000 times the speed of sound.” Taken from New Scientist.
It depends on your location and climate - check out this page for more info: northspore.com/pages/grow-mushrooms-on-logs-videos#:~:text=Healthy%2C%20living%20trees,for%20mushroom%20growing Basically before budding and after 6 weeks of full-leaf out 👍
