Oct 07, 2016
Exciting news! Our cultures of Fibroporia vaillantii and Stropharia rugosoannulata are finally in! I think that makes this project's commencement official. Time to ramp up! Transferring bits of tissue to other Petri dishes will give me clone cultures of my study organisms - a little insurance to safeguard against the "c" word: contamination.
Mycoremediation is a form of bioremediation that uses fungi to clean up contaminated sites. Brown rot and white rot are categories of fungi that produce different suites of digestive enzymes that have each shown potential for mycoremediation. We aim to bolster the efficiency of mycoremediation techniques currently in use by combining white rot and brown rot fungi to produce a broader arsenal of digestive enzymes to break down diesel in contaminated soils.
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