Enabling community-based metrology for wood-degrading fungi.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Lignocellulosic biomass could support a greatly-expanded bioeconomy. Current strategies for using biomass typically rely on single-cell organisms and extensive ancillary equipment to produce precursors for downstream manufacturing processes. Alternative forms of bioproduction based on solid-state fermentation and wood-degrading fungi could enable more direct means of manufacture. However, basic methods for cultivating wood-degrading fungi are often ad hoc and not readily reproducible. Here, we developed standard reference strains, substrates, measurements, and methods sufficient to begin to enable reliable reuse of mycological materials and products in simple laboratory settings.

Results

We show that a widely-available and globally-regularized consumer product (Pr

SUBMITTER: Perez R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7081594 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature