{"id":17972,"date":"2023-12-10T09:25:30","date_gmt":"2023-12-10T03:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=17972"},"modified":"2025-04-05T07:51:51","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T02:21:51","slug":"potteromyces-asteroxylicola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/potteromyces-asteroxylicola\/","title":{"rendered":"Potteromyces asteroxylicola"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Potteromyces asteroxylicola<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It was found infecting the\u00a0ancient plant Asteroxylon mackiei, showcasing a predator-prey interaction that occurred while the plant was alive.<\/li>\n<li>The unique reproductive structures of Potteromyces, known as\u00a0conidiophores, stood out with their unusual shape and formation, leading to its designation as a new species.<\/li>\n<li>Its reproductive structures, known as conidiophores, had an unusual shape and formation.<\/li>\n<li>Rhynie Chert site in Scotland is known for its well-preserved Early Devonian communities of plants and animals, including fungi and bacteria.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>What is Devonian Period?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It spans between about\u00a0419.2 million and 358.9 million years ago.<\/li>\n<li>It is sometimes\u00a0called the \u201cAge of Fishes\u201d because of the diverse, abundant and in some cases, bizarre types of these creatures that swam Devonian seas.<\/li>\n<li>Forests and the coiled shell-bearing marine organisms known as ammonites first appeared early in the Devonian.<\/li>\n<li>Late in the period\u00a0the first four-legged amphibians appeared, indicating the colonization of land by vertebrates.<\/li>\n<li>During the Devonian, there were\u00a0three major continental masses: North America and Europe sat together near the equator, with much of their current area covered by shallow seas. To the north lay a portion of modern Siberia. A composite continent of South America, Africa, Antarctica, India, and Australia dominated the southern hemisphere.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) Where do fungi grow?<\/h3>\n<p>Fungi grow in a wide variety of environments around the globe. Most fungi are terrestrial and are found in all temperate and tropical areas. A few species live in the Arctic and Antarctic regions, usually as part of lichens. Soil rich in organic matter is an ideal habitat for many species, and only a small number of fungi are found in drier areas or in habitats with little or no organic matter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/home\/science\/407-million-year-old-disease-causing-fungus-unveiled-at-natural-history-museum\/articleshow\/105846857.cms?from=mdr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>407-million year-old disease-causing fungus unveiled at Natural History Museum<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Potteromyces asteroxylicola  was found infecting the ancient plant Asteroxylon mackiei, showcasing a predator-prey interaction that occurred while the plant was alive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":17973,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17972","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}