"Just as the pigment chlorophyll converts sunlight into chemical energy that allows green plants to live and grow, our research suggests that melanin can use a different portion of the electromagnetic spectrum - ionizing radiation - to benefit the fungi containing it,"
One problem with that. Ionizing radiation is not on the electromagnetic spectrum. It's particles with rest mass.
One problem with that. Ionizing radiation is not on the electromagnetic spectrum. It's particles with rest mass.