Filaments - Fungi newsletter

Whole archive can be found on Buttondown or here:

Planned episode:

  • Medical uses of fungi
  • (Obscure) fungal facts and records
  • Cleaning up with fungi Bioremediation with fungi
  • The symbiosis with plants (mycorrhiza etc.)
  • The dark side of fungi (diseases, toxins, etc.)
  • Plants vs. fungi vs. pests
  • Astromycology and the future of fungi
  • Yeast yeast yeast
  • Mycorrhizal networks

Growing & finding mushrooms

  • Yellow oyster mushrooms grew quite well in the living room in a perforated plastic box on top of damp Vermiculite.
  • Chicken of the woods (Laetiporus, mainly L. sulphureus and L. cincinnatus) Apparently tastes more like chicken than chicken itself.

Growing filamentous fungi

Fungi collection in Industrial Biotechnology, Chalmers University of Technology, 2016. (Credit: Silvia Hüttner)

Fungi & and notes

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