PULLMAN, Wash. – A fungus that causes potentially fatal disease has been found in Oregon and Washington. Cryptococcus gattii has been causing disease in Canada, especially the Vancouver region, since 1999. 21 cases of fungal infection have been noted in the United States, five of which resulted in death.
SULTAN, Wash. – Whether your forest is a backyard with just a few trees or hundreds of acres, growing gourmet and medicinal mushrooms can be a satisfying and profitable venture. In the Pacific Northwest there are about a dozen commercially viable species including oyster, shiitake, and maiitake that can be grown using many of our […]
Whether your forest is a backyard with a few trees or hundreds of acres, growing gourmet and medicinal mushrooms can be a satisfying and profitable venture. In the Pacific Northwest, there are about a dozen commercially viable species including oyster, shiitake, and maiitake that can be grown using many of our native trees. However, ensuring […]
PULLMAN, Wash. – Frank Dugan, USDA Agricultural Research Service plant pathologist, will present “Fungi in History and Folklore: Mushrooms, Yeasts, Molds, and Mildews in the Lives and Stories of our Distant Past” at 7 p.m. on Nov. 18 in Smith Center for Undergraduate Education (CUE) 518 on the campus of Washington State University. An expert […]