Submerged culture conditions for polygalacturonase production by Sclerotinia sclerotiorum (MR5) were optimized by Taguchi orthogonal array experimental design methodology. This approach facilitates the study of interaction of a large number of variables spanned by factors and their settings with a small number of experiments leading to considerable saving in time and cost for the process optimi...

Despite the fact that most industrial processes for secondary metabolite production are performed with submerged cultures, a reliable developmental model for Streptomyces under these culture conditions is lacking. With the exception of a few species which sporulate under these conditions, it is assumed that no morphological differentiation processes take place. In this work, we describe new dev...

Pigments and melanins of fungal spores have been investigated for decades, revealing important roles in the survival of the fungus in hostile environments. The key genes and the encoded enzymes for pigment and melanin biosynthesis have recently been found in Ascomycota, including Aspergillus spp. In Aspergillus terreus, the pigmentation has remained mysterious with only one class of melanin bio...

Amauroderma rugosum is a wild mushroom that is worn as a necklace by the indigenous communities in Malaysia to prevent fits and incessant crying by babies. The aim of this study was to investigate the nutritive composition and antioxidant potential and anti-inflammatory effects of A. rugosum extracts on LPS-stimulated RAW264.7 cells. Nutritional analysis of freeze-dried mycelia of A. rugosum (K...

In recent years in Russia, interest has grown in the development of food and fodder additives and pharmaceutical drugs based on higher mushrooms and their metabolites. Most of these research works are concerned with basidiomycetes, which are widely investigated in many countries all over the world. The involvement of rarely encountered fungal organisms, with complex trophism and ecology, into t...