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Torda Varga

@vtorda.bsky.social
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Biologist exploring fungal evolution & ecology. Research Fellow at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

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Torda Varga @vtorda.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Our latest preprint asks: Do mushrooms have “real” tissues, and how do they regulate tissue development? We found that a sex pheromone–receptor system originally involved in mating compatibility has been co-opted to regulate tissue development. 🍄https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-10877730/v1
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Torda Varga @vtorda.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
📝We’ve finished the first draft of our Ganoderma lucidum “origin” article: “A historical specimen of False Lingzhi (Ganoderma lucidum) resolves a 245-year-old confusion within an important medicinal mushroom group.” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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