Sooty puppet's name. He would later be joined by other puppet glove characters, including Sweep (a dog who communicates by a saxophone reed type squeak), Soo (a shy and sweetly spoken panda), Kipper (a cat), Butch (another dog who occasionally plays the part of a villain), Ramsbottom (a snake), 'Enry the Robot, Cousin Scampi (another bear, who is Sooty's cousin), Miki (another cat - this time Brazilian) and Maggie Mouse. Like Sooty, Scampi appears to talk only in a very light whisper which can be heard only when someone puts their ear close to his mouth. Matthew Corbett, the son of
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