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What type of microorganism rots wood spoils food and causes skin diseases?
Fungi can rot wood, spoil food, and cause skin diseases such as ringworm.
How does an apple rot?
Well because of bacteria and fungi our food rots. How? Bacteria and fungi grow ON the food or any kind of fruit causing it to decay or rot.
What is the main cause wood to dry rot?
The main cause of wood dry rotting is a brown rot fungi called Serpula lacrymans. These spores get onto wood and slowly eat away at the wood, causing it to slowly rot out.
Why doesn't the wood a house is made of rot?
Wood Rot Wood rot is a type of fungal decay in timber, the decay comes in two catagories, white rot and brown rot. Decay usually starts when spores from the rot come into contact with damp timber. The damp timber (more than 20%w/w) allows the spores to establish themselves and grow using the wood as a food source. Symptoms of an attack of wood rot range from cross cuboidal cracking to mycelium on the surface of the wood and these symptoms vary depending on the type of rot, the type of wood and the conditions that the wood is subjected to. Wood rot usually reduces the strength of timber and is often accompanied by a fungal growth called a sporaphore or fruiting body which is the heart of the attack and produces more spores which continue the life cycle of the fungus. The most feared fungi is true dry rot (serpula lacrymans) which tends to cause more widespread damage than wet rot fungi
What is dry rot-?
Dry rot is something that is no more good. This is something that has set for a while and has dried up.
Why does bread rot?
Fungi attack bread to get food and bread is rotten .
Is rot bacteria or fungi?
Fungi e.g white rot
What has the author Terry L Highley written?
Terry L Highley has written: 'Micromorphology of degradation in western hemlock and sweetgum by the brown-rot fungus Poria placenta' -- subject(s): Sweetgum, Fungi, Western hemlock 'Controlling decay in waterfront structures' -- subject(s): Waterfronts, Inspection, Maintenance and repair, Wood, Deterioration 'Properties of cellulases of two brown-rot fungi and two white-rot fungi' -- subject(s): Brown rot, Wood-decaying fungi
What has the author A S Zainal written?
A. S. Zainal has written: 'Micro-morphological studies of soft rot fungi in wood' -- subject(s): Chaetomium globosum, Deterioration, Phialophora fastigiata, Wood, Wood-decaying fungi
Does wood rot faster in the dark or light?
There is no specific time line. It is dependant on the wood and how much oil/resin it has in it, if the wood is a hard of soft wood, what the environmental condition the wood is in. But to give a very basic idea soft wood will start to rot in the outside normal environment where you have rain, cold dry spells across a year in about 6 months hard wood will go substantially longer
What food do not spoil the fastest?
the green bell pepper spoils the slowest. It took me like a month to rot it
What items of litter rot quickly?
food, wood, (natural substaces)
