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Very interesting; thanks for sharing.
Reporter seems to have a math problem. I think it is impossible for the following sentence to be true, with the conventional interpretation of percentage increases: "Researchers were able to get the shiitake crop to yield double the amount usually harvested, but the best performing species were nameko mushrooms, which produced a whopping 80 percent more mushrooms."
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If there really are more mushrooms sprouting after a thunder storm as compared to after just rain then presumably the only differences on the ground that could cause this would be an increased electric field and maybe a trace of nitric acid in the rain?
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I know its not electrostatic, but given a strong enough magnetic field (10 to 16 Teslas in this case), you can diamagnetically levitate a frog (as in the amphibian, before you ask)...
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I suppose one should first investigate the circumstances which lead to the fungus 'deciding' to come up at any particular time, and then compare the electrophilic ones with a control group.
While all this is going on, a parallel study of free range hens could lead to some outstanding mushroom omlettes, so the investigation would be a success with or without high potential gradients.
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Klugesmith wrote ...
Very interesting; thanks for sharing.
Reporter seems to have a math problem. I think it is impossible for the following sentence to be true, with the conventional interpretation of percentage increases: "Researchers were able to get the shiitake crop to yield double the amount usually harvested, but the best performing species were nameko mushrooms, which produced a whopping 80 percent more mushrooms."
I too was stuck on this, and had to re-read several times as the only way I can see this being true is if the Nameko value is measured in volume... but even then, everything following it grammatically incorrect. *shrugs* Anyway, I personally have witnessed some bizarre plant growth in the presence of an electrical storm. I once had a bolt strike right in my front yard, and I swear, right in the same spot grew an unknown species (to me anyway) of flower. At least one that's fairly rare in these parts. Whether or not the lightning storm cause the seed to germinate is beyond saying, but odd none the less.
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