The final report from the Independent Panel on Forestry, for example, illustrates the build-up of diseases such as Asian longhorn beetle in broadleaved trees, Cryphonectria parasitica on sweet chestnut, oak processionary moth, acute oak decline, and other fungal diseases on a range of trees.
So far, the laboratory has found Wymore's various morgellons fibres to be: nylon; cotton; a blond human hair; a fungal fibre; a rodent hair; and down, most likely from geese or ducks.
"Well, they said it was a 'big fungal fibre', but they weren't completely convinced".
In "Witness to AIDS" he describes how, as the virus first took a grip, he was a living corpse on which white fungal spores grew.
The genes in question make anti-microbial proteins and so far, the cells seem to be shielded from some natural fungal predators.
The eye-care company was dealt a serious blow last year when it had to recall contact-lens solution that had been found to produce fungal eye infections.Reuters and Thomson made their merger official in an £8.7 billion ($17.2 billion) transaction to create the world's largest provider of financial data.
In Boston, the fungal meningitis spread because of poor oversight.
The killer blow would then be administered by something else: a mite infestation, perhaps, or a fungal infection, or whatever else happened to turn up that a healthy hive would have shrugged off.
Climate change, habitat destruction, a paralysing virus, fungal infection and even a plague of parasitic mites have all been proposed.
In June scientists announced the discovery of two new strains in South Africa, the most important food producer yet infected.Wheat rust is a fungal infection.
A fungal disease, Chalara fraxinea, is spreading through the land, having laid waste to ash trees in pockets of continental Europe.
