Chapter 515: Circle of Friends (61)

Ergot: The curved body is like a cow's horn, and the purple and black color is scary.

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10 minutes ago.

Ergot, Cryptococcus, Cryptococcus gatti, Mycospora, Brachymyces, Yeast, Aspergillus, Fusarium, Penicillium, Trichoderma, Davidium parvilla, Scattercysts, Candida, Malassezia, Monocovials, Cysticillos, Lyricus albacans, Powdery mildew, Mucormyces, Candida albicans, Saccharomyces, Streptococcus, Escherichia coli, Bifidobacteria, Bacteroides, Clostridium difficile, AIDS, Influenza,

AIDS: Wow, there are so many fungi in this circle of friends.

Ergot: Well, I'm a fungus.

AIDS replied to Ergo: Looking at your name, I thought you were a kind of food.

Ergot reverts to AIDS: I am a fungus formed by sclerotia, shaped like a grain of wheat, so I am called "ergot".

AIDS: Oh, so ergot has nothing to do with wheat.

Ergot replies to AIDS: No, no, no, I have something to do with wheat, ergot fungus parasitizes in the ovary of wheat and other grasses, and turns the ovary into me.

AIDS: It's so complicated, ergot, ergot, wheat, stupid can't tell the difference.

Flu: Xiao Ai is a little silly, ergot fungus parasitizes the ovary of wheat to form ergot, how simple!

AIDS Responds to Flu: You're Not Stupid, Can You Write a Little Biography of Ergot?

The flu replied to AIDS: I am a virus, not a ergot, and he had to write his own autobiography.

Ergot spp.: Ergot is a product of my ergot spp., wheat horn, autobiography pasted up.

Ergot: Here's my autobiography.

I'm Ergot.

My real body is ergot.

I belong to the phylum Fungus, the subphylum Ascomycetes, Sclerotinia class, Spherboaceae, Ergomyceae, Ergomycetes.

I am widely distributed on the planet.

Ergot fungus parasitizes in the ovary of gramineous plants such as rye, wheat, barley, oats, and goosescomb grass, and after multiplying in large quantities, the ovary becomes a sclerotia, which is shaped like a wheat grain, so it is called "ergot".

That's where my name "Ergot" comes from.

The main host of ergothorns is rye.

When rye blooms, the thready, single-celled ascospores of ergot fungus are transported by wind to the host panicle.

Subsequently, the spores begin to germinate the tubes, which invade the ovary by the stigma of the pistil.

The hyphae grow and spread, developing into white, cotton-wool-like mycelium that fills the ovary.

After destroying the internal tissues of the ovary, it gradually breaks through the wall of the ovary, giving birth to pairs of short conidia with a large number of white, ovate, and transparent conidia at the apex.

At the same time, the mycelium secretes a sweet, sticky substance that attracts flies, ants and other insects to transmit conidia to other healthy flower spikes.

When rye is almost ripe, the infested ovary no longer produces conidia.

The mycelium inside the ovary gradually shrinks into a mass and becomes a black, hard mycelial tissue called sclerotia, also called "ergot", which is visible to the naked eye.

I am a precious Chinese medicine and one of the earliest natural medicines used by humans.

I have a variety of ingredients in my body, ergotamine, ergotoxine, ergometrine.

Ergotamine can treat migraines.

The use of a small amount of sclerotia can speed up labor.

Human beings also use ergot as a raw material to purify and synthesize various ergotin derivatives.

Parkinson's disease, diabetes, cerebral thrombosis, atherosclerosis, arterial occlusion, hyperprolactinemia...... I've treated all of these ailments.

Of course, I am a double-edged sword, when used in moderation, it can be used as a medicine to treat diseases, and if it is not used properly, it is poison.

When humans overdose, I strongly constrict the arteries, which can lead to limb necrosis.

I can also act on smooth muscles, causing numbness, blindness, paralysis and spasms.

If I take too much and don't treat it promptly, my mortality rate is very high.

AIDS: It's scary, and it's a fungus that can poison people.

Flu: Ergot ergot has a nice name and a scary effect.

Ergo: I'm obviously a life-saving medicine, but I blame myself for eating dead people and animals if I don't use it properly?

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