PLNTPTH 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Petri Dish, 18 Months, Mycelium

• School: Ohio State University
• Department: Plant Pathology
• Course: PLNTPTH 2000
• Professor: Thomas Mitchell

Document Summary

Due two weeks before the end of class. Try to get them in early, though--could be cool to present in class! Try to find ways for it to grow: a kind of matter for it to live off of. We could go to antarctica and collect fungi, and then collect lichens from the sierra de gredos (spain) and the alps (austria), sending each up to the. International space station in similar conditions as mars. After 18 months, >60% of the cells did not die. This means that they would probably be able to at least survive on mars. It shows that we could use fungi to help us survive on mars. We can find ways that it can benefit us, as well as why it might be a bad idea for us to bring them. We can use them to show how organisms can mutate/adapt to live on mars! Stromenopiles--share fungal lifestyle but more close to some algae.