《真菌学》课件mushroom6.pptx

I trained them in tissue culture of mycelium, showing them how I introduced to a nonnutritive agar media a sample of my preferred wood substrate upon which I wanted mushrooms to eventually form. The idea was to familiarize mushrooms strains to a nonnative wood substrate so that the mushroom mycelium could adapt its enzymatic pathways early in its life cycle. ;This is one of the ways I have selected mycelial strains for growing shiitake or maitake mushrooms on alder, a wood that they don’t inhabit in nature. Some strains adapted; some didn’t. I selected those that grew faster, sending out diverging fans of running mycelium.;;I provided Battelle a select library of 26 of my most aggressive mushroom strains for testing as antidotes to bacteria, petrochemicals, and other toxins. ;;;;This joint study by Battelle and Fungi Perfecti suggests that remediation of sites polluted by chemical warfare agents using mushroom mycelium is more effective and less expensive than conventional methods. In one of many tests, 2 of my strains neutralized “very close surrogates of chemical weapons such as sarin, soman, and the VX family of compounds”;;Mycelium, Mushrooms, and the Hyperaccumulation of Heavy Metals and Radioactive Elements;The Chernobyl reactor near Kiev, Ukraine, overheated on April 26, 1986, leading to a core meltdown that released a plume of radioactive debris for more than 10 days. Nearby residents absorbed levels of radiation 100 times greater than the levels absorbed by individuals at a similar proximity to groundzero at Hiroshima.;However, this nuclear disaster stimulated new research on the accumulation of radioactive fallout in the food chain; of all the foods identified as bioaccumulators in this research, mushrooms top the list.;The Japan Times (2001) reported that a shipment of porcini mushrooms(Boletus edulis) from Italy was confiscated because it showed high cesium levels. The New York Times (Wines 2002) reported that Moscow officials passed Geiger cou