The Life Box you're gonna be getting a DVD of the TED conference you add soil, you add water, you have mycorrhizal and endophytic fungi as well as spores, like of the Agarikon mushroom.

I became interested in entomopathogenic fungi fungi that kill insects.

Those organisms that paired with fungi were rewarded, because fungi do not need light.

Fungi don't like to rot from bacteria, and so our best antibiotics come from fungi.

Sunlight was cut off, and fungi inherited the Earth.

Lichens arose as a co op. Fungi married algae ...

Fungi multiplied. Orchids emerged, genitalia shaped to lure insects ...

Those fungi and bacteria are as highly evolved as humans.

Irrigation encourages the growth of stem rust fungi like UG 99

Consider the fungi including mushrooms, rusts, molds and many disease causing organisms.

So, fungi and mycelium sequester carbon dioxide in the form of calcium oxalates.

Everything is covered in invisible ecosystems made of tiny lifeforms bacteria, viruses and fungi.

We call it mycophobia, the irrational fear of the unknown, when it comes to fungi.

In fact, we're more closely related to fungi than we are to any other kingdom.

Most of you may not know that fungi were the first organisms to come to land.

Preserving the genome of these fungi in the old growth forest I think is absolutely critical for human health.

I want to present to you a suite of six mycological solutions, using fungi, and these solutions are based on mycelium.

More recently, at Einstein University, they just determined that fungi use radiation as a source of energy, much like plants use light.

So, the prospect of fungi existing on other planets elsewhere, I think, is a forgone conclusion, at least in my own mind.

A group of 20 eukaryotic microbiologists published a paper two years ago erecting opisthokonta a super kingdom that joins animalia and fungi together.

You get fungi, you get fish, you get plants, you get amphibia, you get reptiles, and then, of course, you get the dinosaurs.

And there are a few other land dwellers that can make light some insects, earthworms, fungi but in general, on land, it's really rare.

Most of us don't have fungi or algae in our brains, so what is our brain going to do if we put that in?

There's one last elephant in the room, the proteins themselves, which come from algae and bacteria and fungi, and all over the tree of life.

She suspected the difference had to do with the mice's gut microbiomes the community of bacteria, viruses and fungi that normally live within the gastrointestinal tract.

So, I went to the EPA homepage, and they were recommending studies with metarhizium species of a group of fungi that kill carpenter ants, as well as termites.

And the species in the soil go to work basically chewing through those roots, decomposing them the earthworms, the fungi, the bacteria and the result is new soil.

You could fly 100 Ph.D. students under the umbrella of this concept, because my supposition is that entomopathogenic fungi, prior to sporulation, attract the very insects that are otherwise repelled by those spores.

These are hacks, and if we looked at the general shape of the approaches to hacking life there are, current consensus, six kingdoms. Six different broad approaches the plants, the animals, the fungi, the protests the little things the bacteria and the Archaea bacteria. The Archaeas.

Because farming takes place outdoors and in dirt, such contamination is a fact of life. Over the centuries, the main culprit in mass food poisoning often has been contamination of unprocessed crops by fungal toxins a risk that is exacerbated when insects attack food crops, opening wounds that allow fungi (molds) to get a foothold.

It is also a crisis of emerging infectious diseases (EID s), such as HIV in humans, Ebola in humans and gorillas, West Nile virus and Avian Influenza in humans and birds, chytrid fungi in amphibians, and distemper in sea lions. There is every reason to take these events seriously, because EID s appear to have a long evolutionary history.

So, just like nature, we also grow fast planting trees and underneath that, we grow the slower growing, primary grain forest trees of a very high diversity that can optimally use that light. Then, what is just as important get the right fungi in there that will grow into those leaves, bring back the nutrients to the roots of the trees that have just dropped that leaf within 24 hours.