A compilation of time lapse movies showing fungal growth, macro shots of mycelium, microscopy and bioluminescence. For more information, contact Dr. Patrick Hickey ph@luxgene.com
What an amazing video. I didn't expect this to be good just from looking at the thumbnail for some reason... I was wrong. This was super insightful. I didn't know that the inside of the mycelium is so fluid! I assumed it was made up from "solid" cells and always wondered how nutrients were transported throughout the organism. Thank you!
Really pleased you enjoyed the videos, and thanks for highlighting the dynamic nature of the cytoplasm. It often resembles a soup with spaghetti and meatballs! I have many more new clips to share, just adding sounds.
Anyone else find it beautiful how even in a Petri dish (I assume that's what this is) the spores colonize out in a circle, in a pattern almost identical to the mushroom gills that inevitably spawned them
The black lumps are negatively stained (un-labelled) nuclei (DNA) within the cytoplasm. It's a bit like spaghetti and meatballs in soup flowing though a network of pipes!
Hello - really beautiful video, thank you for sharing! :) A question: does anybody know what the mycelium is growing in from 0:53 - mycelium growth macro? How was this flat dark blue background achieved?
Although I have no clue what sort of mycelium that is (because it’s basically impossible to distinguish different kinds mycelium as far as mushrooms go), I do have some guess to how they achieved the background. I’d assume they put dye inside of the agar before pouring it as well as putting the plate on a black background before filming.
