These are spores this is in their spores.

to bear spores that foreshadowed seeds.

Now after sporulation, the spores repel.

Nye So this is what Bacillus subtilis looks like.

I actually chased the mycelium, when it stopped producing spores.

First, a burial suit infused with mushroom spores, the Mushroom Death Suit.

It's covered with a crocheted netting that is embedded with mushroom spores.

And the spores are germinating, and the mycelium forms and goes underground.

They sporulated, the spores attract insects, the insects laid eggs, eggs became larvae.

Uh, yeah, well, uh, I grew spores and fungi... in my parents' refrigerator this summer.

Bacillus pasteurii, a micro organism that is readily available in wetlands and marshes, and does precisely that.

Yeah, so for the control, we were thinking like that would be the normal growth for Bacillus.

I've never, uh, I've never, that I know of, tried Bacillus subtilis, but these these probably taste better.

An example of an organism or two that happens to be quite immortal would be plant seeds or bacterial spores.

So somehow you're thinking that they will get... they'll reproduce better, they'll get more fit, be stronger, more excited sub Bacillus subtilis.

What happens is, you pour Bacillus pasteurii onto a pile of sand, and it starts filling up the voids in between the grains.

We see the result, the traces, if you like, of the Bacillus pasteurii being harnessed to sculpt the desert into these habitable environments.

We are planning to send the QST 713 strain of bacillus subtilis into space to see if it will become more virulent to fungi,

I'm also making a decompiculture kit, a cocktail of capsules that contain Infinity Mushroom spores and other elements that speed decomposition and toxin remediation.

Bacterial spores are thought now by scientists to exist as individual cells that are alive, but in suspended animation for as long as 250 million years.

But the insects aren't stupid, and they would avoid the spores when they came close, and so I morphed the cultures into a non sporulating form.

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,

I put it right where a bunch of carpenter ants were making debris fields, every day, in my house, and the ants were attracted to the mycelium, because there's no spores.

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.

And my favorite example of that occurred beginning in 1976, when it was discovered that the bacteria causing Legionnaires disease had always been present in natural waters, but it was the precise temperature of the water in heating, ventilating and air conditioning systems that raised the right temperature for the maximum reproduction of Legionella bacillus.