{"id":9057,"date":"2026-03-09T11:41:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T11:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unescoalfozanprize.org\/?p=9057"},"modified":"2026-03-09T11:41:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T11:41:30","slug":"new-ocean-fungus-shows-promise-against-toxic-algae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unescoalfozanprize.org\/zh-hans\/new-ocean-fungus-shows-promise-against-toxic-algae\/","title":{"rendered":"New Ocean Fungus Shows Promise Against Toxic Algae"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Yokohama National University<\/span><\/span> have discovered a tiny marine fungus, <em data-start=\"149\" data-end=\"175\">Algophthora mediterranea<\/em>, that can infect and kill harmful algae responsible for toxic blooms. The fungus targets species like <em data-start=\"278\" data-end=\"300\">Ostreopsis cf. ovata<\/em>, which produce toxins affecting human skin, eyes, and lungs, and can also survive on pollen and multiple algae species. The discovery suggests that parasitic marine fungi may play a larger role in regulating ocean ecosystems than previously recognized. Scientists hope this insight could help predict and manage harmful algal blooms in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at Yokohama National University have discov [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":9060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unescoalfozanprize.org\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unescoalfozanprize.org\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unescoalfozanprize.org\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unescoalfozanprize.org\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unescoalfozanprize.org\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unescoalfozanprize.org\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9065,"href":"https:\/\/unescoalfozanprize.org\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9057\/revisions\/9065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unescoalfozanprize.org\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unescoalfozanprize.org\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unescoalfozanprize.org\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unescoalfozanprize.org\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}