  Cells in a fungal hyphae are separated by internal walls (septa). The septa
have tiny pores that allow cytoplasm flowing between cells. Cells can close
their septa blocking the flow if they are injured, preventing fluid loss from
the rest of filament. This action is achieved by special organelles called
Woronin bodies. Using the controllable pores as an inspiration we advance one
and two-dimensional cellular automata into Elementary fungal cellular automata
(EFCA) and Majority fungal automata (MFA) by adding a concept of Woronin bodies
to the cell state transition rules. EFCA is a cellular automaton where the
communications between neighboring cells can be blocked by the activation of
the Woronin bodies (Wb), allowing or blocking the flow of information
(represented by a cytoplasm and chemical elements it carries) between them. We
explore a novel version of the fungal automata where the evolution of the
system is only affected by the activation of the Wb. We explore two case
studies: the Elementary Fungal Cellular Automata (EFCA), which is a direct
application of this variant for elementary cellular automata rules, and the
Majority Fungal Automata (MFA), which correspond to an application of the Wb to
two dimensional automaton with majority rule with Von Neumann neighborhood. By
studying the EFCA model, we analyze how the 256 elementary cellular automata
rules are affected by the activation of Wb in different modes, increasing the
complexity on applied rule in some cases. Also we explore how a consensus over
MFA is affected when the continuous flow of information is interrupted due to
the activation of Woronin bodies.
