mycoremediator

Any fungus used for mycoremediation.

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.

A person or company engaged in mycoremediation.

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.