Mycoremediator

Till date fungi belonging to some major genera viz., Acremonium, Agrocybe, Alternaria, Aspergillus, Bjerkandera, Boletus, Candida, Cephalosporium, Cladosporium, Cordyceps, Doratomyces, Fusarium, Ganodrma, Geotrichum, Gliocladium, Hypholoma, Lecanicillium, Lentinus, Morierella, Mucor, Paecilomyces, Penicillium, Phanerochaete, Phlebia, Phoma, Pleurotus, Polyporus, Rhizopus, Thodotolura, Saccharomyces, Streptomyces, Talaromyces, Torulopsis, Trametes, and Trichoderma have been tested and employed for mycoremediation and Phanerochaete chrysosporium has been reported as the most capable model mycoremediator. '

You have to think a little differently to grow mycoremediators compared to raising edible mushrooms for the dinner plate.

Its main current economic interest is based on its use as a biocontrol agent in agriculture and as a producer of enzymes in different industries (Jangir et al. 2017), although in recent years its relevance in other sectors has been increasing, as a promoter of plant growth and tolerance to abioltic stresses (Poveda et al. 2019a; Poveda 2020), source of genes for use in biotechnology (Poveda et al. 2019b), or mycoremediator.

Extensive studies desired for exploration of fungi as a potential mycoremediator in order to attain agricultural sustainability are discussed by Purohit et al. in Chap. 4.

Q: What tips would you have for the grassroots mycoremediator?

The challenges faced by mycoremediators' are analogous to thse faced by brewers— without suitable conditions, yeast will struggle to remediate the sugar in a barrel of grape juics into alcohol— except that the wine barrel is a contaminated ecosystem and we're inside it.