Mycelium Essays

  • Steps in Mushroom Cultivation

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    first steps in mushroom cultivation are preparation of culture media. Mushroom mycelium needs nutrition to grow. Agar (seaweed) contains almost no nutrition, but acts as a gelling agent when mixed with water, so that the mycelium has a flat, solid surface to grow. A combination of agar, water, and nutritional substance gives a satisfactory method for growing out healthy mycelium (Ogden & Prowse, 2004). The mycelium grows on the surface of the medium will later be used to inoculate larger amounts

  • Fungi: A Misunderstood Marvel

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    Very few view fungi as essential to human life. If asked to consider this diverse kingdom, most would only answer with whether they enjoy mushrooms on their pizzanotwithstanding the fact that there are at the very least 1 million species of fungi thought to outnumber vascular plants by a ratio somewhere between six to one and thirty-three to one. Even so, only 100,000 species of fungi are known to exist while mycologists continue to discover 1000 new species every year. Most notable was the recent

  • The Miraculous Reishi: Mushroom or Medicine?

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    The Miraculous Reishi: Mushroom or Medicine? Ganoderma lucidum, otherwise known as the Reishi or Mannentake has been heralded by Asian cultures for many centuries. It is a polypore mushroom of corky or woody texture that appears to have a coat of varnish on the top. It is a shelf mushroom that grows on dead and dying trees. There are many varieties of Reishis. Akashiba is the red Reishi, the most potent; Kuroshiba--the black Reishi; Aoshiba--the blue Reishi; Shiroshiba--the white Reishi; Kishiba--the

  • The Grim Grotto: Elements of Fiction

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    Baudelaire-Sunny from the poisonous Medusoid Mycelium. This is Sunny’s conflict because she is suffering from the Medusoid Mycelium. All of these conflicts were external conflicts because they are about characters against each other and not about emotions. I agree with the way that the characters try to solve the conflict because they refuse to give up on anything. They didn’t give up when they had to save Sunny or get away from the Medusoid Mycelium. “There must be something we can do to save Sunny

  • The Benefits Of Mushrooms

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    INTRODUCTION People have harvested mushrooms from the wild for thousands of years for food and medicines. Mushrooms are fleshy fruiting bodies (Alexopoulos et al., 1996) that are considered one of the delicious fruits, and are commonly produced worldwide (Madbouly and Al-Hussainy, 1996). The cultivation of edible mushrooms is a world wide important commercial activity (Chang, 2000). Several aspects have con-tributed to the development of this activity: (1) the raw materials used are waste from

  • Hay and its Unforeseen Dangers

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    Web. 13 Feb. 2012. . Lemus, Rocky. MSUcares. Mississippi State U, Dec. 2009. Web. 13 Feb. 2012. . Smith, Ray. “Understanding and Reducing Mold Growth in Hay.” The Camelid Quarterly (June 2005): n. pag. Google Scholar. Web. 15 Feb. 2012. . “Mycelium.” Merrium-Webster Dictionary. N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Feb. 2012. .

  • Different Types of Mushrooms

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    many are found only rarely in special habitats. Mycelia Mushroom mycelia may live hundreds of years or die in a few months, depending on the available food supply. As long as nourishment is available and temperature and moistures are suitable, a mycelium will produce a new crop of Sporophores each year during its fruiting season. Fruiting bodies of some mushrooms occur in acs or rings called fairy rings. The myscelium starts from a spore falling in a favorable spot and producing strands (hypahe)

  • The Importance Of Mushroom

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    formed above or under the ground and big enough to be observed by naked eyes or harvested by hand. Simply, mushroom is just a fruiting body of a fungus to assist the dispersal of spores to extended areas while its vegetative part is the thread-like mycelium that is able to penetrate through the surface on which the fungus is growing (Chang, 2008). 1.1 Importance of mushroom World’s population is expected to approach 9.7 billion in the year 2050 hence there is a great demand to sustain this ever-growing

  • Penicillium

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    Penicillium was discovered in 1809 by Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link. Today, it has been developed into penicillin. Penicillin, an antibiotic, can prevent bacterial infections. It is also present in foods. It is invaluable in today’s economy and practical use. Because of it, millions of lives have been saved. Along with the invention of anesthesia, antibiotic invention has been credited to being one of medicine’s greatest gifts to the world. In 1927, Alexander Fleming had been studying the properties

  • Proper Aseptic Technique

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    ASEPTIC TECHNIQUE Aseptic technique is a combination of principles and practices used during experiments to prevent or reduce the possibility of unwanted microorganisms from getting into Cell cultures, sterile solutions and supplies. This is more serious when working with human cell lines. Good aseptic technique is very important and basic for successful results in cell and tissue cultures or any other experiment. When a very good aseptic technique is followed, these principles and practices provides

  • The Fungi Formerly Known as Dentinum Repandum

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    contains many large, fleshy fungi, To begin this discussion on the life cycle of Hydnum Repandum, this text will start with the basidiospore germination (Webster 295). This results in a haploid mycelium with a single nucleus in each cell. It is then referred to as the monokaryon, or the primary mycelium (Ross 141). Following this, two genetically different thalli come together, and the nuclei move from one thallus into another. The migration of nuclei usually results in both of the thalli becoming

  • Importance Of Healthy Soil Essay

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    Healthy soil is important because people use it in their everyday lives, it affects us in everything that we do. For example: soil makes up the outermost layer of our plant, soil supports organisms that are essential for a healthy environment, healthy soils are essential for a sustainable environment, our landscape is sustained by soil, we use soil to flourish our food and it helps to keep our drinking water clean, and soil plays a vital role in maintaining the balance of gases in the air that we

  • Histoplasmosis Research Paper

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    A. Histoplasmosis is a type of fungus that lives in the environment, mainly in areas of birds or bats dropping in humid areas. It is not a series condition unless it spreads throughout the body. One can develop this by breathing in spores of fungus in areas with bird or bat droppings. It is usually transmitted through spores becoming airborne by demolition projects. This fungus grows mainly in central southeastern and mid- atlantic states. This fungus thrives in in damp soil and rich organic material

  • The Future Of The Portobello Mushroom

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    Brin Berge April 2014 The Future of the Portobello Mushroom (agaricus bisporus) as an Environmentally Sustainable and Nutritious Food Source Introduction Agaricus bisporus is the scientific name for the Portobello mushroom. The Portobello mushroom is one of the most widely cultivated and consumed edible mushrooms in the world. It is the most common edible mushroom in the United States, and has been since 1800. 50%Fifty percent of Portobello mushroom cultivation occurs in Pennsylvania. The industry

  • Serial Dilution Lab Report

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    value will not be influenced by large fluctuations from between one data point and the next (Table 2). After establishing the CFU’s, the fungi was then extracted from the petri dish, stained, and then observed through microscopy. Identified were mycelium, septate hyphae, non-septate hyphae, sporangiophore, bacteria, sporangium, and spores (Figures 1-16).

  • Understanding Microbes and Fungi: Our Unseen Allies

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    Microbes are single-cell organisms that cannot be seen by the naked eyes and are found everywhere in the ecosystem. Microbes are important to human being as they aid in digesting the food, act as a decomposer and without them, there would be a lot less of oxygen to breathe. Around 3.5 billion years ago, microbes have already been living on this earth where there is just ocean. Studies of microbes help us understand the past and the future of human and the planet. Microbes can be divided into six

  • The Affect of Environmental Conditions on Gene to Map Distance in Sordaria Fimicola

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    belongs to the kingdom of fungi and is part of the phylum Ascosmycota. This fungus habitat is in the feces of herbivores. As many fungi Sordaria have one life cycles which is haploid/ diploid. It is commonly exits as a haploid organism, but when the mycelium from two individuals meets, the result is a diploid zygote. This diploid zygote which undergoes meiosis forms eight haploid ascospores . The ability of Sordaria to make 8 haploid ascospores is what makes it unique and important for the laboratory

  • Microorganisms and the Great Potato Famine in Ireland

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    Microorganism means small organism which is often referred to as a microbe. A microbe is a single-cell organism which is so tiny that millions can fit into the eye of a needle. Microbes are known to be the oldest form of live on Earth, they can live individually or cluster together in communities. Microbes live everywhere. Anywhere you can think of, microbes live. They can be found in the air, soil, water and are present in and on our own body. Microbes are also known to live at temperatures less

  • Dollar Spot

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    spots can grow to form large, irregular areas on the turf that can eventually blanket a green. The fungus survives as masses of mycelia called sclerotia or stromata on plants or in the thatch during unfavorable weather conditions (Bonos, 2011). The mycelium starts growing from the thatch onto wet leaf surfaces to cause the initial infections (Charbonneau, 2010). Plant tissue infected with dollar spot can be carried by numerous objects such as golf cars, mowers, golf shoes. The disease attacks the foliage

  • Fungi Essay

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    1.0 INTRODUCTION Fungi have been significant in both past and modern biotechnological processes (Bennett, 1998). After World War I, a traditional fungal biotechnology has begun and developed into yielding of enzymes, antibiotics, hormones, citric acids, vitamins, and fungicides (Demain, 2000). This list will continue expanding as we moved in this modern century. Fungi definitely bring lots of benefits in pharmaceutical and economic industries. For instance, pharmaceuticals and personal care products