How mushrooms discriminate

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Recognition gene that distinguishes between self and others discovered.

This is how mushrooms pop up

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Filmer Tim Wijgerde shows nature on a different timescale.

A little wiser: How do fairy circles form?

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How do rings of toadstools you see in autumn form?

A little wiser: Why can you eat some fungi and not others?

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Some fungi, such as mushrooms, are edible. Others make you ill. Why?