{"id":270445,"date":"2023-03-03T18:16:31","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T17:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/polishscience.pl\/?p=270445"},"modified":"2023-03-03T18:16:31","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T17:16:31","slug":"microscopic-fungus-that-can-save-forests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/microscopic-fungus-that-can-save-forests\/","title":{"rendered":"Microscopic fungus that can save forests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Septoria krystynae is a newly discovered species of microscopic fungus that may save Polish and European forests from the increasingly spreading common mistletoe. Research on it is being conducted by scientists from the Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection at the University of Lodz (U\u0141) and the Institute of Forest Sciences at the Bia\u0142ystok University of Technology (PB).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As explained by Dr Ma\u0142gorzata Ruszkiewicz-Michalska from the Department of Algology and Mycology at the University of Lodz (U\u0141), common mistletoe, which most of us associate with Christmas, is in fact a semi-parasitic plant that has been spreading rapidly in Europe in recent years and is increasingly threatening silviculture.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In spring 2022, scientists from the U\u0141 and PB started a research project entitled &#8216;Fungi limiting the growth of common mistletoe&#8217;.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the occasion of this research, the scientists managed to discover and describe a new species of the microscopic fungus Septoria cristinae. This fungus, found by Marek Wolkowycki from PB in the Bia\u0142owie\u017ca Forest, is a parasite of the common mistletoe and causes a disease called septoria in the mistletoe.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Septoria krystynae is a newly discovered species of microscopic fungus that may save Polish and European forests from the increasingly spreading common mistletoe. Research on it is being conducted by scientists from the Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection at the University of Lodz (U\u0141) and the Institute of Forest Sciences at the Bia\u0142ystok University [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":270204,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270445"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270455,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270445\/revisions\/270455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}