Talk:Pseudoplectania nigrella

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Date	Process	Result
October 14, 2010	Good article nominee	Listed

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on October 31, 2009.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that hairy black cups use toxic chemicals to kill living things?

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Reviewer: Ucucha 20:08, 13 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Do you really need to mention in the lead that it is the type species? Most lay readers won't even understand what it is.

I could go either way. Only one species in a genus gets to be the type, so it's a big deal for the fungus... but in the interests of the average read, I'll save that info for the article body. Sasata (talk) 21:03, 13 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

What are paraphyses?

Glossed. Sasata (talk) 21:03, 13 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

"grows solely amongst sphagnum moss"—does this mean that is grows only among sphagnum moss or that it grows solitarily?

Clarified. Sasata (talk)

This seems interesting, though I don't have access to the full text. The abstract is suggestive (to me at least) of lateral gene transfer involving plectasin.

It's in Japanese, with bits of English, but I did put in a tidbit from the abstract. Thanks! Sasata (talk) 21:03, 13 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Title: Defensins as host defense molecules against microbes: the characteristics of the defensins from arthropods, mollusks and fungi Author(s): Yamauchi, Hideo; Maehara, Noritoshi; Takanashi, Takuma, et al. Source: Bulletin of the Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute Volume: 9 Issue: 1 Pages: 1-18 Published: MAR 2010

Ucucha 20:08, 13 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks; passing now. Ucucha 02:00, 14 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]