Mushrooms Create Own Wind With Puff Of Water Vapor To Send Spores Flying: Study

Mushrooms throw their hopes to the wind, literally. For a fungus, the culmination of reproduction means releasing spores that are carried through the air. Ideally, a fungus wants its spores to get as far away from the parent mushroom as possible. This increases genetic diversity; a mushroom is less likely to end up in the middle of a bunch of closely related fungi that could lead to an incestuous danger zone. Finding a mate in the fungal world is heavily dependent on proximity, and keeping it in...