How far and how fast can mushroom spores fly? Physical limits on ballistospore size and discharge distance in the Basidiomycota

Fungal Biology

Volumn 114, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 669-675

  Fischer, Mark W F ^a   Stolze Rybczynski, Jessica L ^b   Cui, Yunluan ^b   Money, Nicholas P ^b  

^a College of Mount St Joseph ^*  (United States)

^b MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive significance; Basidiome; Basidiospore; Biomechanics; Spore discharge

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; DROPLET; FUNGUS; MICROSCOPY; MUSHROOM; SIZE EFFECT; SPORE; SPORULATION;

AGARICALES; ARTICLE; BASIDIOMYCETES; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL SIZE; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; FUNGUS SPORE; THEORETICAL MODEL; VIDEO MICROSCOPY;

AGARICALES; BASIDIOMYCOTA; CELL SIZE; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SPORES, FUNGAL;

AGARICALES; ALEURODISCUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BASIDIOMYCOTA; FUNGI; HYMENOCHAETALES; HYPHODONTIA;

EID: 77955056584     PISSN: 18786146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.funbio.2010.06.002     Document Type: Article

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