Oyster mushrooms (Pleurotus ostreatus) serenely growing on a tree trunk in a forest. But nematodes beware! These oyster mushrooms want to eat you—and they have evolved a novel mechanism for ...

Oyster mushrooms (Pleurotus ostreatus) are a type of edible mushroom that are shaped like oysters. They're one of the most popular mushrooms in the world. Learn more about the benefits that oyster ...

Life Oyster mushroom fungus uses nerve gas to paralyse and eat tiny worms The fungus that produces oyster mushrooms preys on tiny animals by releasing a paralysing nerve gas called 3-octanone ...

Cesaria P. Eugenio, Neil A. Anderson, The Genetics and Cultivation of Pleurotus ostreatus, Mycologia, Vol. 60, No. 3 (May - Jun., 1968), pp. 627-634 ...

Fluorescent pseudomonads isolated from different lesions on caps and/or stipes of cultivated Pleurotus ostreatus were identified as strains of Pseudomonas tolaasii or showed the White Line Assay (WLA) ...

What is more, she says, despite their unsavoury diet the fungi in question, Pleurotus ostreatus (better known as oyster mushrooms), are safe to eat. To prove the point she has, indeed, eaten them.