Soo (puppet) Soo (puppet) Soo is a British glove puppet and TV character from the show Sooty and first appeared in 1964 as the girlfriend of Sooty. They still remain boyfriend and girlfriend today. In many episodes they kiss. Soo is a calm and collected female panda who acts as the foil for both Sooty and Sweep, and usually wears a red skirt. The original voice artist and puppeteer for Soo was Harry Corbett's wife, Marjorie Corbett, who voiced Soo until 1980. Brenda Longman took over in 1981 until 2001, when the then new owners of Sooty Hit Entertainment, overhauled the series
Sooty mold is a black, powdery coating adhering to plants and their fruit or environmental objects. The ecology of the different species, their interactions, relationship to the host have been little understood. A chance observation of a Microcyclospora tardicrescens inhibiting the growth of the fruit pathogen "Colletotrichum fioriniae" in dual culture tests, yielded trichothecolone acetate and its (S)-7-hydroxy derivative as active principles for the interaction between "M. tardicrescens" and "C. fioriniae". Genera causing sooty molds are "Alternaria", "Cladosporium", "Aureobasidium", "Antennariella", "Limacinula", "Scorias", "Meliola", and "Capnodium". Sooty mold grows particularly well on plants that produce a sugary exudate, if they are infested by