The cytoplasm of Phytophthora palmivora is rich in soluble p-(1 + 3)-glucans of which two different types can be recognized. The glucans extracted from the mycelium are all neutral molecules. In the asexual reproductive stages (sporangia, zoospores, and cysts) neutral glucan is also present but the main component is a family of novel phosphoglucans. By ion exchange chromatography, five differen...

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...

Two distinct reservoirs of mycotoxins exist in fungal-infected cereal grains--the fungal spores and the spore-free mycelium-substrate matrix. Many fungal spores are of respirable size and the mycelium-substrate matrix can be pulverized to form particles of respirable size during routine handling of grain. In order to determine the contribution of each source to the level of mycotoxin contaminat...

In the presence of pure oxygen at one atmosphere pressure Micromonospora vulgaris is unable to form in liquid media a surface pellicle of growth-bearing aerial mycelium. The production of bottom growth is either unaffected or stimulated by oxygen. Vegetative mycelium which develops from spores in Warburg vessels has an oxygen uptake that is similar in the presence of air or oxygen. Aerial mycel...