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Alright you fucking degenerates. It's time to get your edumacation on about corn smut.
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This is corn smut, a culinary valuable type of fungus. It starts life like a yeast sporidia by budding daughter cells until it finds a genetically suitable mating partner. Once it becomes dikaryotic it starts to form the fungal hypha and infects a single kernel forming what you see as a gall.
While deletirious, and often considered a blight by farmers, the immature galls can be sold for many times more than the corn if it had not been infected. They are called huitlacoche when being used as culinary, and are described as tasting sweet and savory with earthy tones.
When infecting the kernel, the corn tries to protect itself using a reactive oxygen species, that in turn is countered by the fungus's YAP1 gene that protects it from oxidative stress. Genetic research into M. Maydis has actually worked tangible results in our ongoing fight against breast cancer!
M. Maydis is a basidiomycota or "club type" fungus, which is to say it belongs to the same order as the classic mushrooms you're used to seeing such as fly aminita/agaric which is the inspiration for the Super Mario power up mushroom.
This fungus is also considered a model species as in it's sporidia phase is capable of accepting gene modification.
M. Maydis is also capable of synthesizing the essential amino acid lysine, which we need but cannot produce ourselves.
So, you see, not all corn infecting funguses are bad. Some are actually really cool, and have funny names like "smut".
Oh fuck yeah I just creamed my corn reading this smut
Take that, you smut!
I thought we were gonna talk about PornHub's greatest day. Instead I got science'd all over my face.
I went to pornhub thinking they were doing a weird corn thing.
They weren't. It's just normal boring porn and not super cool corn.
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I thought we were gonna see real corn sex. Ugh.
Apparently duckduckgo has cleaned up their filter since the last time I searched for corn smut... at work. Now you have to scroll a ways down until the porn hits. I still recommend looking up cuitlacoche instead.
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Please tag your NSFW posts.
Not safe for Wheat?
I thought we were posting corn to return to actual shitposts, this one is too informative and interesting.
Since corn is a critical crop in many regions its one of the most studied species on the planet. Even a post about shitty corn is interesting.
This is not the kind of corn smut I cum here for!
I love fungi and I'm usually an adventurous eater but something about this image really rubs me the wrong way. Cool facts though. I'm glad it exists, just not sure I'd try it.
I think there's something about the parasitic nature of it, taking over an otherwise healthy ear of corn. We tend to think of our edible fungi as growing out of the dirt like a plant, or a fallen tree, or at worst sort of calmy sitting on top of whatever it is using for its own food. THe fact that this has invaded kernels makes them very bad corn kernels and triggers something instinctive. Corn smut is one of those "the first person to try this was in a bad spot" kind of foods.
Yes that's exactly it. At the end of the day it's pathologically deformed corn. It feels a little like the thought of eating cancerous tissue even though it's not quite the same. I do enjoy similarly treated food items like blue cheese though so it's probably just a matter of getting used to it.
El cuitlaccoche! Just this past summer I had blue corn tortillas wrapped around cheese and cuitlacoche, with a subtle tomato-based sauce on top, and let me tell ya, this was an umami paradise, like Mexico's answer to the French savory crepe, but they are not fighting for supremacy, they inhabit neighboring culinary kingdoms and share similarities, but they unmistakably inhabit different lands.
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Nice job talking about corn smut and leaving out the only part we all came for (or will soon):
Nsfw? Perverts. What kind of a mod community just let's this hit front page?
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It doesn't just grow on the ears either. It often grows on the stalk or tassel.
Wait a bit until that little fella matures and then produces spores. It will be about 4x the size in those pictures. Bumping into them covers you in dark black spores that sticks around on your clothing.
I read you really want to harvest them before spore production as the blackish blue/purple spores are fairly acrid. But I would love to run into some IRL, get spored up, and bring it to my area.
I would sent you pictures of it but I don't save smut to my phone.
How much is a kilo of smut?
Can you grow it intentionally?
About 2.2 pounds,
and yes but it is an obligate parasite. So far we have been able to culture the monokaryotic early yeast like sporidia, but have been unsuccessful at growing any of the hypha producing dikaryotic version in the lab.
Obligate parasites. Yeah I read the news.
Lol, man, I wanted to know the "street" price of a kilo (2.2 lbs).
So far we have been able to culture the monokaryotic early yeast like sporidia, but have been unsuccessful at growing any of the hypha producing dikaryotic version in the lab.
What they taste like? Don't say chicken.
Edit: Also, are you a mycochemigeneticist.
Lol, I know what you were after but this is shitposting and I couldn't help butt fuck with you a little. And sadly no, my undergrad is in biology but I am more environmentally focused. I'm just your typical autistic idiot who hyper focuses on one thing for a few weeks. A few years ago that things was cultivating edible mushrooms. And to answer your question about price, they are very difficult to get ahold of fresh or dried so your only option is in brine in a can or jar. I just picked up this jar from the Bodega down the block from me for $10.
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It tastes like a corny mushroom. Do not try them from a jar. Those taste more like a slimy snot rag.
It's an obligate parasite that enters the corn plant via tiny wounds when it's the plant is small. The most common source of wounding is insect damage or wind. Sandy soil + wind creates the highest incidence. Once you find some hotspots it's easy to find.
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Always use a condom, kids!
Corndom.
Thanks for teaching us. Keep going with the hardcore biology.
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