The survivor, a fungus called Muscodor albus, had killed the others by gassing them.
Strobel cautions that fermenting fungus into huge vats of cheap biodiesel is still years away.
Starting in 1988, various plantations in Jalisco began suffering blights, caused by fungus and parasites.
The first puzzle that scientists are trying to work out is where the fungus came from.
This "mycodiesel" (after the Greek word for fungus) could be his biggest find ever.
Massospora cicadina, a fungus, lives in cicada larvae and passes between adults when they mate.
"This is the first insight into the genetics of this fungus, " Prof Kamoun told BBC News.
Experts sequenced the RNA of the fungus, which was mixed up with that of the plant.
And these activities are likely to carry the fungus from one place to another.
This provides excellent growing conditions for Rhizopus stolonifer, the fungus that leads to mould.
Elsewhere, it was wiped out by Panama disease, a wilt caused by a fungus called fusarium.
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It wasn't until 2007 that Strobel discovered that the fungus emitted a remarkable mixture of volatile gases.
In the Middle Ages the nail fungus, Poronia punctata, which grows on horse droppings, was extremely common.
The main culprit in the wavelike series of amphibian crashes is a chytrid fungus, known as Bd.
Warming temperatures could be reducing the amphibians' ability to mount a successful immune response to the fungus.
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From what is left, it is possible to pick out what distinguishes a fungus from a worm.
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In the United Kingdom, the fungus has yet to appear, but habitat destruction remains a major threat.
The only thing that might harm the fungus itself is the trampling of too many human feet.
The trees are being attacked by a fungus that can be transmitted by wind, insects and rain splash.
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Or once the fungus got to the States, did it evolve and mutate into a more virulent form?
America is worried there is fungus on the floor after a million stockinged feet have walked on it.
Around 400 species of lichen, which is a cross between a fungus and an algae, grow in the reserve.
Yeast (a fungus itself) gets 500 milligrams of ethanol per gram of cornstarch.
The two new Essex sites confirmed with the chalara fungus are in the Frinton and South Woodham Ferrers areas.
The gathered leaves are also used as a surface to grow the fungus that is consumed by the colony.
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An alternative idea is that the greater diversity of amphibian species in virgin forest helps the fungus to spread.
Dr Amerson's group has found markers that distinguish fungus-resistant stock from disease-prone trees.
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One such infection, Candida, is a fungus that occurs in 90, 000 patients a year and has a 40% mortality rate.
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They've spent years genetically tweaking the tropical fungus to make it grow faster, and turn out more and better enzymes.
Aflatoxin is a poison that is usually found in foods (especially peanuts) that have been contaminated by a particular fungus.
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