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it looks like a rock
I have seen a fungus like the crown gall on trees near my house in Wisconsin.
the rock looking thing is a rose stem with crown gall
It looks like a rock but it comes from a tree and it is very bumpy
what is the big bulb
bumpy, bumpy
small and lumpy
Looks like thetree man!
it looks gross and i would never go near it...
Even though does not mean that you can't learn. Science is very fun indeed and hope that you wil enjoy it while you can.
the fungus looks like a rock!!! well yea it does because it is dry!
fossilized droppings
Vegtable matter
this very unice
Awesome!
the corn got sick and evreything got sick .
i know its a fungus but it kind of looks like a brain!!!!
that thing is so "platypus", it looks TO-tally disgusting.
Pathogens
They are small and lumpy,
Infecting others
Discusting
An ostensibly dry and mundane root can spawna beautful flower.
getting embarassing to have an "object of the month" that hangs around for 6 months (and counting!).
True. Object of the Month is going to go away for a little bit, and come back in a new incarnation. Stay tuned...
it looks like a pine cone or a rock
sand
wheat
corn
The sweet corn looks like it has been mummified. if you save it you could use it next year at Halloween for a decoration.
I saw corn smut in a corn maze a couple of weeks ago
why is there dental floss in there?
The ones in the mmidle in the cup remind me about the prarie in the woods near my home, especially at this time of year when plants and such are dying for the winter.
This is totally unrelated, but I think the one on the right look like some sort of tumor.
I have no idea what so ever but it looks like the cup has sand in it! With weeds? Oh and popcorn?
it reminds me of the indians. I like indians because i'm one.
this is a big object,one that I've never seen before. Is it edible or not? I am not sure.
I don't know what this thing is. It could be anything, from an old piece of bread to wheat stuck in a glass of milk. In conclusion, good night.
gross
this just looks gross and other people problely think that to
Wheat is used for bread. Many indian cultures used to make many different types of bread in the early days. Corn is also used for many different carbohydrate foods. Carbohydrates give us fast quick energy. Unused carbohydrates turn into fat in the body
yeah my guess is droppings that are really really old
corn smut
It looks almost excactly like pinecone but instead, it is very very brown all over...............why is that???????
that is disgusting. i would not eat that corn!
Science- the first wonder of nature. Generaly read and studied by different people to know more about our world.
looks like a wasp's nest.....sort of
it looks like a blister but not on skin, like it got broken off
these are completely awesome! they deserve to be the object of the month.
ergot on rye. sounds like a kind of tasty sandwich! maybe you could put it on your restaurant's menu? ha ha!
this fascinating exhibit contains wheat growing in milky sand. plus a mushroom rock and decomposed corn husk.
This is a tumor extracted from the stomach of an ancient egyptian pharoah. The surrounding objects are his favorite things
Corn smut isn't as COMPLETELY unappetizing as it looks. In certain regions in Mexico, corn smut is harvested and used in a variety of dishes. Just ask Minnesota native and bizarre foods expert...Andrew Zimmern. He actually tried corn smut during his visit to Mexico!
It looks like a growth of some kind
Fungal cell growth out of control that can be both medicinal and poisonous depending on dosage. It may have triggered the Salem witch hunt.
I looks like a harvest with lots of food maybe thanksgiving some holiday must have toke a long time to grow
wats that lumpy thing on the far right
I don't know. A lump, maybe?????
the thing on the bottom left looks like an old burned piece of corn cob with the husk on.
It's grains and dung
Grains and dung
I'm writing a poem of
grains and dung
I'd be better off
if I were wrung
but why do you show us
Grains and dung?
squash
sprinkles
corn
It looks like these weird driftwood thingies my grandma collects on the north shore.
dear love,
love you have lumps.
many many many lumps.
you taste like sweet wheat
all i want to do is eat
is that salt i see?
cause you fill me up with sodium babeeey
love me
It looks like it is from MARS.
how do you stop the growth?
there's a beaker wit weeds in it, a bumpy rock and somethin mysterious
It looks like dino poop.
these plant pathogens look like breakfast food
That looks realy wierd but cool at the same time.
Life in the woods!
I don't really know about this kind of stuff but it looks like poop and school food
were do you find rose stem with crown gall
leaf with fuzzy seeds and bark and old corn.
This is wheat that growsin the fiefields across the US. Once it matures, it dies for other wheats shafts to grow!
although much can be said about this poor old rock
our lives keep us moving with the flock
I think that this is sorta gross I wish i didn't see this! But its also kindda cool! i really like the texture of it!! It's sweet!
Peace Out!
=D
stckiny and wet makes mommy upset wet and sticky is very icky the rocks and fucus are very yucky and the corn is also weird!
- hope you like my poem question- are these things bad for you?
Well bye!
This looks disgusting!!!What is it???
whats the purpose 4 it being here>>
it looks beautiful when there is a large field of gold across the north dakota prarie
what kind of material is the brown thing made of?
The bacteria looks like a huge bumpy piece of wood with two sticks coming out of it.
what's up with the dental floss?
It looks like a rock.
when i was in class one day the teacher siad that researchers believe that ergot fungus in the wheat might have caused the villagers in salem to go insane leading to the salem witch trials.
It looks like a brain crust
it looks like somethiing to do with the petrification process.
I feel that being a retail professional, this type of object would not sell well in a grocery store. We take the corn smut, husk and kernal and grind it down to make corn meal.
It all depends on which grocery store you're talking about, I suppose.
Corn smut: Huitlacoche=Corn smutCourtesy HH4X
This looks like an overgrown acorn.
I'm not sure what a plant pathogen is!
I think it's a rock, or something petrified on a stick.
Why does the fungus look dry?
Hmm... It looks like something from the desert or the forest.
My question is what is it and how does it grow?
the fluffy gold stuff must be wheat because it has a stem like wheat it has a fluffy top like wheat dos it just looks like wheat there are eight sticks the stuff in the cup i think its salt because i like it and i know what it looks like the thing next to the cup i think its a pin cone and i think the thing with the white wrapper is corn.
this is brown and lumpy
it's texture is bumpy
i like it alot
it flows
and glows
and tickles ur toes
i like it alot
it's rough and smooth
it appears to move
i like it alot
Ergot is a major disease of small grains. Spreads from the fungus spores going from leaf to leaf up the plant.
this is weird and kooll at the sam time rock on!!!
dried mud?
it looks like a torch!!!!! with flowers in a cup
This little brown thing is ugly and gross.
it looks like flower and it reminds me of cooking with my mom
Ways that plants get sick.
Hi:
This looks like native to Minnesota items, like corn, mushrooms, grains etc. You have to use your imagination.
-the big item on the far right looks like rock that formd together to form a bigger rock!
-the middle item looks like wheat in sand
-the far left object looks like dead corn!!!!!!
It is corn smut, rose stem with crown gall, and common rye with ergot fungus.
Am i right? :-/
I live in Iowa and there is a cornfield in my back yard. It is important to know about plant diseases in Iowa because corn and soybeans are its main product. This is because if a plant disease destroyed all the crops there would be a corn shortage and the farmers wouldn,t make any money. in my town there is Iowa State University. At Iowa State University they learn how to make plant hybrids that are resistant to disease.
Must have been touched by radio active chemicals like those three legged frogs you see around now days.
Looks like a bad STD.
The rose stem with crown gail looks like poop.
the crown gail grows on mary o'briens head and or feet It might be contagious so WATCH OUT
I think is wheat
It looks like a big, big brain.
The wheat thing-e looks like plants.
And the thing wrapped up in a bag looks like dirt.
Milk with wheat and moldy broccoli
We think that they look cool.Erin has heard about them.
john gordon....myth or legend?
Or a mental construct, or a social meme.
But why do I have to eat and get haircuts still?
The drug LSD is a derivative of the ergot found on the rye plant (the stuff that looks like wheat).
I think it should be a lost item froma ship
because I think it's interesting
I love corn, and corn husks, this reminds me of dough made out of corn that has solidified after not being used for a long time. It reminds me of my native Mexico.
Parece maiz y masa para tortillas. Como se usa en Mexico.
i think its pretty weird how things like that can make you sick and cure migrains and such. 2 of the pland like things look old and 1 of them looks just big and lumpy! there HUGE!!!!!!!!!(the one to the way right on the bottom is HUGE.)
I wonder what they are? well thats it see ya!
How does the disease get on their in the first place?
And what other plants can get infected by it?
way is corn delicious and way do flowers smell so good
rock with a stick through it.
Grass like this has been used for flashback shots in Films, Gladiator, starring Russel Crowe, and Zak Snyder's visual effects lauded film 300.
yeah it does look like a rock!!!!!!!!!!!!
it looks like a rock and a forste
Cool yo
Corn on the cobb is one of the staples of summer. You have to rotate crops ever few years so maybe the farmer went with wheat the next year. If you thought that clump was a rock then when you threw it into the lake it would be a bummer. The screen for peeping is at first, kinda like a mirror.
I think I saw this in my teenage son's gym bag.
i know that through plant pathogens, we can learn about the environment and we can see what has already happened, what will happen and what we can do to prevent
Germs are another name for pathogens.
I've never seen something like the rose stem. It is pretty awesome
Once when I was up in lake supirier, me and my friends and family were walking through the grass and we saw the thing on the far left we didn't know what it was we spent weeks trying to figure it out
briefly,I do not liketalking about plant pathogens
not so sweet corn
i dont get what your asking because it says the answer right in front of it......??
anyways you need a few more exhibits that are fun because personally., some are a waste of space.sorry.
it looks like a banana
it resemles a brain.
EW!
looks like a banana with a brain and sand with wheat growing it it.
kinds of gross if you ask me.
brains are gross
sand is cool
bananas are slipppery
this thing is gross.
Like us animals, fungi can't live without consuming other living things, and some share our taste in food. Most food fungi are harmless competitors, like the edible corn smut. Others can cause perennial plants to become sick or die, like the crown gall. Many fungi don't like being eaten by people, and can even cause LSD-like hallucinations, disfigurement, and death, like the common grain fungus ergot. The constant vigilance of farmers and grain elevator operators ensures that our breads, especially rye breads, are free of fungal poisons.