Warning!!! Deadly Swimming Molds: Invades Crops Causes Billions In Lost Revenues And Millions Starve To Death

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Warning!!! Deadly Swimming Molds: Invades Crops Causes Billions In Lost Revenues And Millions Starve To Death

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Ok the title is a bit over the top but in a round about way
it is true. Many swimming molds live in and swim through the
thin film of water on wet plant leaves and ruin many
important crops during extra wet growing seasons. These
molds often have a very negative effect on agriculture and
are directly responsible for the deadly Irish Potato Famine.


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Warning!!! Deadly Swimming Molds: Invades Crops Causes Billions In Lost Revenues And Millions Starve To Death
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Ok the title is a bit over the top but in a round about way it is
true. Many swimming molds live in and swim through the thin film
of water on wet plant leaves and ruin many important crops during
extra wet growing seasons. These molds often have a very negative
effect on agriculture and are directly responsible for the deadly
Irish Potato Famine.

Some make their homes in moist frog skin and cause a deadly
disease that has been decimating frog populations around the
world for several decades now. While others cause a common fuzzy
white growth of mold on tropical fish.

These molds in at least some stages of their complex life cycles
propel themselves through water with the aid of tiny whip like
structures called flagella. Flagella are those long whip like
structures that are found on some cells such as sperm cells and
are one celled plant like Eugenia protozoans which push
themselves through water.

In his book, "The Fifth Kingdom", Dean Kendrick noted
mycologist (mold biologist) discusses three phyla (large
groupings) of swimming molds:

1) PHYLUM CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA

The first group is known as chytridiomycota these are true fungi
and they have a single flagellum at the rear of the cell, this
flagellum propels the mold cell through the water just like the
flagellum at the rear of a sperm cell propels sperm cells. Around
1998, Joyce Longcore determined that a type of chytridiomycete
mold was causing the death of many frogs around the world by
infecting their skin. You may not have heard of it but widespread
frog deaths have been a serious concern for decades now.

2) PHYLUM HYPHOCHYTRIOMYCOTA

The 2nd group that Dean goes on to discuss is the kingdom
Chromista phylum hyphochytriomycota. They have a single hairy
flagellum at the front. Though similar to the above molds, these
are not true molds.

3) PHYLUM OOMYCOTA

The Third group is the kingdom Chromista phylum oomycota, they
seem to be split and cannot make a clear decision on if it is
better to have one smooth flagellum at the rear or to have a
hairy one at the front, so the oomycetes have opted for two
flagella at the side, one of the two is a hairy flagellum that
points to the front and the other is a smooth one that points to
the rear.

Oomycetes make up the water molds that cause many common fungal
infections in fish including tropical aquarium fish, as well as
downy mildew that cause serious crop damage around the world
every year. Most importantly oomycetes caused the Irish Potato
Famine. This famine caused the death of one million Irish people
and caused millions to emigrate from Ireland including the
ancestors of Al McNamara of Abode Inspections, one of America's
first ASHI home inspectors. He was my mentor and introduced me to
the home inspection field in 1993.

Some of the above organisms have a flagellum during its
reproductive state only while a few exist as a single celled
flagellated mold its entire life. Most of the above live in
water, moist soil, or in the thin film of water on wet plant
leaves. A few even live on the surface of single grains of flower
pollen. Obviously, none of the above water molds are common in
moldy homes. However, it is interesting to understand that these
microscopic molds swim and cause serious negative impacts on
humans, plants, and animals around the world.






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Daryl Watters is president of A Accredited Mold Inspection
Service, Inc. He provides home, mold, and indoor air quality
investigations in South Florida. He is also the creator of
MIR forms designed to aid inspectors in the production of
computer generated indoor air quality and mold inspection
reports. For more information visit:
http://www.florida-mold-inspection.com/
http://www.floridamoldinspectors.us/
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