{"id":58024,"date":"2018-09-12T01:01:59","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T23:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/09\/12\/new-edible-mushrooms-among-thousands-of-recently-discovered-fungi\/"},"modified":"2018-09-12T01:01:59","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T23:01:59","slug":"new-edible-mushrooms-among-thousands-of-recently-discovered-fungi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=58024","title":{"rendered":"New edible mushrooms among thousands of recently discovered fungi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fungi are vital to life on Earth but little studied \u2013 new species of mould were found on baby-carrier backpack and an oil paintingNew species of porcini, chanterelle and portobello mushrooms were among 2,000 new species of fungi discovered in 2017, which scientists say shows how little is known about the organisms.More than \u00a330bn of edible fungi are sold each year, according to the State of the World\u2019s Fungi report published on Wednesday by scientists at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew in the UK. But the lifeforms are even more vital to plants \u2013 90% rely on fungi to thrive \u2013 and many human medicines such as penicillin derive from fungi. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2018\/sep\/12\/new-edible-mushrooms-among-thousands-of-recently-discovered-fungi\" target=\"_blank\">New edible mushrooms among thousands of recently discovered fungi<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fungi are vital to life on Earth but little studied \u2013 new species of mould were found on baby-carrier backpack and an oil paintingNew species of porcini, chanterelle and portobello mushrooms were among 2,000 new species of fungi discovered in 2017, which scientists say shows how little is known about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}