Sooty & Co. Sooty & Co. Sooty & Co. is a British children's television series that was produced for six series by Granada Television, that aired on ITV from 6 September 1993 to 14 December 1998. The series centres on Matthew Corbett, and puppets Sooty, Sweep, Soo and Little Cousin Scampi, as they try to run a bric a brac shop in Manchester. Matthew Corbett runs a shop in Manchester, with puppets Sooty (a yellow bear that can perform magic), Sweep (a squeaking dog), Soo (a female panda), and Little Cousin Scampi (another, if smaller, bear). Sooty and the gang are often getting
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