Mycelium-bound composites are new environmentally friendly, cost-effective and sustainable materials, enable energy-saving bio-composite fabrication, provide an alternative to synthetic materials. Current research on mycelium-based reports relatively coarse material compositions such as rice husks, cotton residues, sawdust, leaves bio-waste, etc. According research, very few publications report...

ABSTRACT Mycelium of Phytophthora infestans, the causal agent of potato late blight, can initiate crop infections over successive years by overwintering in infected potato tubers that survive as seed in fields or within cull piles. This study used four different genotypes of P. infestans to evaluate the influence of freezing temperatures on survival of mycelium in vitro. Sporangium-free myceliu...

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...

This issue takes a fascinating look at how fungi might support more sustainable world. I had no idea that could be used to create materials as potential alternative plastic and leather. was left wondering when the first fungi-grown handbag hit market – it turns out, happened last year but £1,995 price tag for mycelium leather bag from Stella McCartney is little out of everyday reach just yet. F...

The pattern of growth of aerial mycelium in Streptomyces species was investigated by autoradiography. Colonies of Streptomyces antibiotics were labeled with N-acetyl-D-[1-3H] glucosamine to localize the sites of hyphal growth during the development of aerial mycelium. Autoradiographs obtained with sections of the colonies revealed that hyphal growth occurs not only at the top of the colony but ...

accelerated aerial mycelium formation in various actinomycete species, including S. alboniger. This induction was completely inhibited by ethylene glycol bis(/?-aminoethylether)-JV,N,N ',N '-tetraacetic acid (EGTA), a Ca2+-specific chelating agent. Ca2+ thus has been shown to play a role in aerial mycelium formation of 21 (58%) out of 36 strains of actinomycetes tested3). Ca2+ is known as a sec...

The biodegradation of 2,4,6-trichlorophenol (2,4,6-TCP) by Phanerochaete chrysosporium was studied in batch systems. In experiments with mycelial suspension, the degradation of 2,4,6-TCP was found to occur in the absence of ligninase. Chloride ion was recovered in nearly stoichiometric amounts at the end of the process. The microorganism did not retain its degradation ability for more than 6 da...

The exact position of the actinomycetes or ray-fungi in the kingdom of lower forms of life has attracted considerable attention and has been a subject of much speculation. These organisms have been classified as bacteria, as fungi, and as a special group, either derived from one of the above or giving rise to both. With the accumulated knowledge concerning the morphology of the actinomycetes, i...

The effect of light on Monascus and the underlying mechanism have received a great deal of interest for the industrial application of Monascus pigments. In this study, we have examined the effects of blue light on the culture morphology, mycelium growth, pigments, and citrinin yield of Monascus in liquid-state and oscillation fermentation, and explored the mechanism at a physiological level. It...

Phytophthora cinnamomi, a member of the Pythiacease, does not synthesize sterols. Small amounts of squalene, but no squalene epoxide or sterol, were isolated from the dried mycelium of this fungus after growth in sterol-free medium. The dried mycelium of Rhizoctonia solani, a sterol-synthesizing fungus grown under the same conditions, contained small amounts of squalene and squalene epoxide and...