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As a European but not American species, could I be bold enough to suggest that British spelling should be used? If you'd prefer to keep your own spelling, that's of course fine.
"It is found in Europe and Asia (Japan[12] and Jordan[13])." Could we perhaps have something like "It is found in Europe[ref] and Asia, where it is known from Japan[ref] and Jordan.[ref]"
"In nature, the fungus secretes strobilurin A to prevent invasion by other fungi that challenge its nutrient source. It is used as a fungicide to control scab and powdery mildew." When you say "it is used as a fungicide", do you mean by this fungus or by humans?
"Because of its sensitivity to light, and a high vapor pressure that causes it to rapidly disappear when applied to the surface of a leaf, strobilurins are not generally useful as fungicides." Presumably, this is by humans.
Could you perhaps specify earlier what "strabulrins" are? I'm assuming it's a group of chemicals which include strabulrin A- which came first? Also, is it perhaps worth a redlink?
I'm not clear on the extent to which research into this fungus lead to the development of azoxystrobin.
Not directly, but it was a result of research into strobilurin A. Do you think there's too heavy an emphasis on the synthetic chemical that's one step removed from the parent fungus?
Sasata (
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21:24, 21 June 2013 (UTC)reply
"include Allegro, and Brio (kresoxim-methyl) Amistar." Worth redlinks?
Phillips, Roger (1981). Mushrooms and Other Fungi of Great Britain and Europe. London:
Pan Books. p. 77.
ISBN0-330-26441-9. lists it under Métrod's name, but notes that it is "Frequent", found in Spring, and not edible.
Sterry, Paul; Hughes, Barry (2009). Complete Guide to British Mushrooms & Toadstools.
HarperCollins. p. 150.
ISBN978-0-00-723224-6.{{
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link) notes that it is similar to Baeospora myosura, but can be differentiated by the fact it fruits in spring. It notes the species can have an umbo, and, like Phillips, notes that the centre of the cap is sometimes paler. It has a white spore print. Mushrooms solitary or in small groups. Distribution "widespread but occasional".
Some very detailed notes on distribution and description
here, if you can access it- if not, I'll copy it across.
I've added a bit more from this to Habitat and distribution, let me know if you think there's anything that's missing.
Sasata (
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21:24, 21 June 2013 (UTC)reply
Had another look around about the edibility thing. Chapter 18, "Strobilurins and Oudemansins", by Timm Anke and Wolfgang Steglich of
this book on page 320 calls it edible, while Phillips, in his
newer book, says on page 125 that it's not edible as it's too small. (He also describes it as "occasional".)
One of the companies using the mushrooms also describes them as edible. I think, based on these, Phillips was too generous with its occurrence in his earlier work, and I think it's probably fair to say that the species is technically edible but too small to be of much culinary interest without any undesirable synthesis.
J Milburn (
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18:26, 19 June 2013 (UTC)reply
All good except the Anka 1999 ref: it seems to be a chapter in the Kukovinets 2008 source, but the publishing year is different? I can see Kukovinets in Google books (p. 84), but not Anke (p. 320) -- could you please check this?
Sasata (
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17:42, 22 June 2013 (UTC)reply
I copy-pasted the title from the wrong tab- I've corrected it now. Does that solve the issue? I've also just noticed that some book refs have locations, but others don't.
J Milburn (
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18:01, 22 June 2013 (UTC)reply