"thanks so much! sorry it didn't get here, and additional thanks for the additional info :)
i know it's unlikely, but part of me really hopes we end up with a color that's decidedly unyellow in one strain someday - red perhaps, or…"
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Non sporulating strain anyone?
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And so it begins..
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Collaborative project anyone?
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International Slime Mold Organization (ISMO) pronounced IS-MOE
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SMART and SPORE
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ian replied to ian's discussion Non sporulating strain anyone?"Looks like it went missing in the post then, I'll get more on the way. The paler one isn't that pale - still a hint of yellow and it colours up as it ages, I have had white mutations crop up but they don't live long, without a…"
"would love for some of this stuff as someone who easily forgets about things hidden away from plain sight - i'd also like your pale and orange strains, too, as i don't believe you ever got around to posting those out to me. or if you did,…"
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ian posted a discussionNon sporulating strain anyone?
I've had strain x32 on the windowsill for a couple of weeks trying to get spores and raised two batches of sclerotia in light. X32 is henceforth known as The Daywalker. I'll be growing up stocks if anyone wants some for exhibition stuff.Non sporulating strains aren't that unusual from what I can in the literature but since they cropped up in labs studying spore formation in the 70s (before we invented cheap sequencing) they were a dead end. I've had x32 for a couple years but not tried raising…See More
ian replied to ian's discussion And so it begins.."Our youngster grows slowly but is getting there - the only colony so far. I've been reading papers from the 60s and 70s in which amino benzoic acids were used as supplements to encourage plasmodia. I'm now trying mushroom extract - should…"
ian replied to ian's discussion Collaborative project anyone?"I've seen references to polycephalum in the wild in the uk but given that there impossible to id with iud spores I think any id has viewed with a caveat "
ian replied to Raichu's discussion International Slime Mold Organization (ISMO) pronounced IS-MOE"Okey dokey, I can put up a pile of physarum research papers and I can start writing up notes on bulking physarum up for handing out at public events. If anyone thinks they're useful I could annotate my intelligence and the amoeba lecture…"
SMART and SPORE
Hello Everybody,Just so the previous forum post doesn't get clogged up, here is a new one with all the details.Slime Mold Accessible Repository Task (SMART)This is a digital library of all the strains that have been identified by Slimoco membershttps://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1BCupuiMvZ0tHTub127Lg5Z9PG3B...Slime mold Public OutReach Effort…See More
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So the links don't get lost in a conversation thread I've created a new section called 'links' and pasted your google links there.http://slimoco.ning.com/page/links
They are visible to members…"
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