{"id":341755,"date":"2025-07-01T14:49:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T09:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=341755"},"modified":"2025-07-01T14:49:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T09:19:08","slug":"botrytis-fungus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/botrytis-fungus\/","title":{"rendered":"Botrytis fungus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News: <\/strong>A recent study found that Botrytis fungi, known for creating noble rot in fine wines, have a unique genetic setup.<\/p>\n<h2>About Botrytis fungus<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It\u00a0is a necrotrophic fungus that infects ripe grapes.<\/li>\n<li>The fungus pierces the grape skin, causing <strong>dehydration<\/strong> as water evaporates. This concentrates the <strong>sugars, acids, and flavors<\/strong> in the grape, which is essential for producing <strong>botrytized wines<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>This fungus belongs to the <strong>Ascomycetes group<\/strong> and reproduces through spores housed in sac-like structures called <em>asci.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Botrytis-infected grapes are used to craft renowned and high-value dessert wines such as Sauternes (France), Tokaji Asz\u00fa (Hungary) etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>About Fungi<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Fungi are <strong>eukaryotic<\/strong> organisms with a true nucleus and membrane-bound organelles.<\/li>\n<li>They belong to the <strong>Kingdom Fungi<\/strong> in the domain <strong>Eukarya<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Examples include <strong>mushrooms<\/strong>, <strong>yeasts<\/strong>, <strong>molds<\/strong>, and <em>Penicillium notatum<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Fungi are <strong>closer to animals<\/strong> than plants in terms of evolution.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>cell wall<\/strong> of fungi is made of <strong>chitin<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Fungi reproduce <strong>sexually<\/strong> (ascospores, basidiospores) or <strong>asexually<\/strong> (conidia, sporangiospores).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: A recent study found that Botrytis fungi, known for creating noble rot in fine wines, have a unique genetic setup. About Botrytis fungus It\u00a0is a necrotrophic fungus that infects ripe grapes. The fungus pierces the grape skin, causing dehydration as water evaporates. This concentrates the sugars, acids, and flavors in the grape, which is&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/botrytis-fungus\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Botrytis fungus<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,12039],"tags":[11872,10498],"class_list":["post-341755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-knolls","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341755","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\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}