New study finds that mushroom spores can stimulate rainfall

Mushrooms are known to play a considerable role in our consumption and medicinal use. But recently, scientists have discovered another unexpected function of mushrooms - mushroom spores can stimulate rainfall.

The research was published in the journal PLOS One, which details how scientists discovered and studied fungal spores that promote rainfall. It was mentioned that rain can promote the growth of mushrooms during the rain and accelerate the release of spores from mushrooms. When the spores are released into the air, the spores can condense the water vapour in the air and form droplets as these droplets build up more and more to form a cloud that eventually promotes rainfall.

Professor Nicholas Money is one of the authors of this paper and a professor at the University of Miami. He described in the article, "We saw through some satellite photos that some small clouds formed around some canopies, and the surrounding areas were densely populated with mushrooms. We can also see that these mushrooms are also releasing spores." Money added: "We do not mean that only the spores are the only factor that forms the cloud, but it may be that these spores play a catalytic role. This is quite amazing."

According to this study, approximately 1 million tons of fungal spores are released into the atmosphere each year, and basidiomycetes can release 30,000 spores per second. The study shows that this is a circulatory system. Rainfall can promote the growth of mushrooms, thereby promoting the release of spores, and eventually lead to rainfall. According to researchers, the system is evident in the tropics, with about 16,000 species of mushrooms in the tropics. Finally, money said: "The system can be formed in a very humid environment, but it can also play a stimulating role in temperate regions such as the United Kingdom (where the moisture content is high) but in other regions, this system may not What will be the role."