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Glossary: S.
Sacing:
At the time of casting, the supplementation of nutrient to the substrate.
Salation:
A mutation that develops from an isolated mycelium that has a known pure genotype.
Sanitise:
To kill-off undesirable bacteria in a substrate and utensils by either boiling water or steam in the range of 140-160ºF.
A mushroom that lives on dead organic matter.
Scales:
Small to large raised flaps or flakes, on the cap or stem.
Scanning electron microscope:
The scanning of an object with a electronic microscope in a vacuum with a beam of electrons which gives an image of high magnification and resolution that is displayed on a monitor.
Sclerotium (pl. sclerotia):
The harden mass of mycelium often of a dark pigment appearance which is the resting vegetative stage in most fleshy and nonfleshy fungi from which fruitbodies or viable mycelium can develop. (pinheads).
Scratching:
The roughening up and disturbance of the surface of a casting in order to maintain an open porous condition to encourage primordial formation (pinheads).
Seceding:
Where the gills have torn free and separated from the mushroom stem, often leaving longitudinal type of ridges on the apex of the stem.
Sector:
A diverging mycelium geometric growth ( most noticeable in a petri dish filled with a media) of which the appearance contrasts with the surrounding mycelium. which is indicative of genetic mutation.
Secondary mycelium:
A binuclleate and dikaryotic mycelium which is characterized by clamp connections, anastomosis and which is not genetic but is assimilative in its function.
Senescent:
Of age, old, past its best.
Septate:
Of cells divided by walls
Sinate:
Said of the gill where it attaches to the stem and appears notched.
Somatic:
An assimilative phase of mycelial growth.
Sordid:
Appearing dirty looking.
Spawn:
A mycelium on a carrier material which is then used to inoculate a sanitised substrate.
A subordinate category of organims which have a common attribute and are capable of interbreeding and rank after a genus.
Reproductive cell.
A deposit of spores onto a piece of paper from a mushroom.
Sporocarps:
The spore producing fruit body.
Sporulate:
To produce or release spores by multiple cell fission.
Stem:
The stalk of the mushroom. (Stipe)
Sterigmata (pl. sterimatae):
The arms of the basidium.
Stipe:
The stalk or stem.
Strain:
The separate individuals within a species that have a common genetic heritage but differ in features of no taxonomic significance.
Striated:
The distinctive grooves or lines at the cap edge.
Stroma:
A dense cushion-like aggregation of mycelium forming on the surface of the casting or compost indicating somiatic (non-genetic ) growth.
Strophariaceae:
The dark brown species of spored fungi of the genera Melanotus, Naematoloma, Pholiota, Psiocybe and Strophria.
Stropharioid:
Resembling the mushroom species stropharia, which has a membranous ring on the stem, a convex cap and purplish brown spores.
Substrate:
Any sanitized fibrous material on which mushrooms are grow. eg straw, sawdust, compost or soil.
Any relationship between two or more different organisms in close association especially one that is of benefit to all involved.
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