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How does sunlight affect mold growth?

Updated: 8/10/2023
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14y ago

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Mold needs moisture, heat, and food. All three conditions are necessary for it to grow. Mold is most likely to find a place to grow in a bathroom, basement or kitchen, but in this situation we are in a kitchen, and outdoors. Mold spores can grow and spread in wet or damp areas that have had flooding.

and the light will either dry out the mold and eventually kill it.

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11y ago

If you are talking about "sootymold" the answer is yes. This normally grows on a substrate that is deposited on the leaves of the plants and does not harm the plant directly. Indirectly it blocks light to the leaves and negatively affects photosynthesis.

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yes and different color lights will affect it to, ultraviolet light will kill it and no light at all will increase it's growth

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Sunlight increases the temperature of the surrounding where bread molds thrive. This will dry out the bread, thus decreasing the growth of the mold, since it prefers a moist environment.

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14y ago

It slows the mold growth down.

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