{"id":236013,"date":"2023-04-04T19:25:54","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T13:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=236013"},"modified":"2023-04-04T19:26:41","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T13:56:41","slug":"india-has-registered-a-global-first-of-a-plant-fungus-infecting-humans-climate-change-amr-will-exacerbate-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-has-registered-a-global-first-of-a-plant-fungus-infecting-humans-climate-change-amr-will-exacerbate-it\/","title":{"rendered":"India has registered a global first of a plant fungus infecting humans; climate change, AMR will exacerbate it"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source: <\/b>The post is based on the article<\/span> \u201cIndia has registered a global first of a plant fungus infecting humans; climate change, AMR will exacerbate it<\/b>\u201d published in <\/span>The Hindu on 2nd April 2023<\/b><\/p>\n

What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n

The first case of a plant fungus called <\/span>Chondrostereum purpureum<\/span><\/i> infecting human beings has been reported from Kolkata.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What is Chondrostereum purpureum?<\/b><\/h2>\n

Chondrostereum purpureum is a Plant Fungus.It is known to cause Silver leaf disease in plants, especially in species of rose families.<\/span><\/p>\n

The fungus easily grows on dead or dying wood, but when it latches on to healthy living plants, it eventually kills them, turning the leaves silver in the process.<\/span><\/p>\n

This was the first time a human has been infected with Chondrostereum purpureum.<\/span><\/p>\n

Concern:<\/b> Of the hundreds of millions of fungal species, only a few cause infections in humans.This may be the start of a new phenomenon when plant fungus is adapting to invade human cells by evading the process of \u2018phagocytosis\u2019.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Note:<\/b> Phagocytosis means \u2018cell eating\u2019.It happens when a cell uses its plasma membrane to engulf a large particle giving rise to an internal compartment called the \u2018phagosome\u2019.Organisms clean and defend themselves by this process.<\/span><\/p>\n

What is the reason for a plant fungus infecting human beings?<\/b><\/h2>\n

Rising temperature due to global warming is thought of as one of the major reasons for this new threat to human beings.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Most fungi thrive in the range of 12\u00b0C to 30\u00b0C.However, many species are thermotolerant and can withstand high temperatures.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on the article \u201cIndia has registered a global first of a plant fungus infecting humans; climate change, AMR will exacerbate it\u201d published in The Hindu on 2nd April 2023 What is the News? The first case of a plant fungus called Chondrostereum purpureum infecting human beings has been reported from… Continue reading India has registered a global first of a plant fungus infecting humans; climate change, AMR will exacerbate it<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-236013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704812680},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}