Death cap mushroom's invasion success may be linked to newly documented variability of toxin genes

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May 26, 2023, 5:57 pm547 ptsHot
It's a cold, wet day in 2015 and Anne Pringle is scouring the understory of a Northern California forest for the unassuming organism that has consumed her research for the last several years: the death cap mushroom, or Amanita phalloides.

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