This research examined how mushroom spores can grow and break down complex substances using only their internal resources, similar to how plant seeds can grow initially without external nutrients. This has important implications for understanding fungal ecology and biotechnology applications. Key impacts on everyday life: – Helps explain how mushrooms can colonize and decompose dead plant material in nature – Provides insights for developing more efficient industrial fermentation processes – Could lead to improved mushroom-based technologies for breaking down environmental pollutants – May enable development of new sustainable industrial processes using fungal spores – Demonstrates nature’s efficient resource management strategies that could inspire human technologies