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Meghalaya’s Glowing Mushrooms
November 27 , 2020
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- A mushroom documentation project in the forests of Northeast India has discovered a bioluminescent or light-emitting variety of mushroom.
- The new species was first sighted near a stream in Meghalaya’s Mawlynnong in East Khasi Hills district and later at Krang Shuri in West Jaintia Hills district.
- It is now one among the 97 known species of bioluminescent fungi in the world.
- The colour of the light emitted by the organism depends on its chemical properties.
- In the case of fungi, the luminescence comes from the enzyme, luciferase.
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