abnormal growth

[srinidhalaya]

Central Texas:
The first picture was taken a month or so ago, and the second just today. I believe a frog sat on it for a for a bit, then the next rain this started to grow. I suspect the growth hormones on the skin of the frog started this, and it went from there...but I'm not too sure, havent found any information on anything remotly like this. If anyone knows, let me know.

[MrAloeVera]

Wow! That is quite impressive. But I believe there is an explanation.

The frog's skin produces anti-chytrid metabolites to kill off the chytrids (the most primitive of the fungi and are mostly saprobic, degrading chitin and keratin). The frog's skin also produces high amounts of fast growing probiotic bacteria, like the one our skin produce in order to keep the "bad" bacteria away.

Also, a study on biofuel revealed that:

The scientists identified 78 bacterial endophytes from poplar and willow. Some species had beneficial effects on plant growth, others had no effect, and some resulted in decreased growth. In particular, poplar cuttings inoculated with Enterobacter sp. 638 and Burkholderia cepacia BU72 repeatedly showed the highest increase in biomass production — up to 50 percent — as compared with non-inoculated control plants. Though no other endophyte species showed such dramatic effects, some were effective in promoting growth in particular cultivars of poplar.

SOURCE: http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/pubaf/pr/PR_d ... p?prID=874

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