Pleurotus ostreatus
Overview
Written by Chris Goodall, Kenyon 22'
Since the commencement of the Anthropocene, humans have continued to produce increasingly significant amounts of conventionally deemed waste products. Ranging from carcinogens to to complex hydrocarbons, the recent accumulation of these synthetic and organic compounds throughout global ecosystems continuously compounds into an ever increasing environmental concern (cite COP 25). Recently, efforts to combat this problematic trend have brought rise to the field of mycoremediation, a a subfield of bioremediation. Mycoremediation works around the concept of potentializing non discriminate fungal enzymes as a means of concentrating, removing, and recycling complex pollutants.
emergence of a new field of science focused on the remediation of these environments. mycoremediation. it's a subfield of bioremediation
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Section 1 -- Cellular Structure
niche formation, historical uses, all that good stuff
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Section 2 -- Pleurotus ostreatus: the next heavy metal champion
"Heavy metal pollution due to coal washery effluent and its decontamination using a macrofungus, Pleurotus ostreatus". https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoenv.2017.07.001
“Ligninolytic fungi, such as Phanerochaete chrysosporium, Bjerkandera adusta, and Pleurotus ostreatus, have the capacity of PAH degradation. The enzymes involved in the degradation of PAHs are ligninolytic and include lignin peroxidase, versatile peroxidase, Mn-peroxidase, and laccase.” https://doi.org/10.1155/2012/243217
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Section 3 -- Pleurotus ostreatus: powered by fossil fuels
“Bioremediation of long-term PCB-contaminated soil by white-rot fungi” doi:10.1016/j.jhazmat.2016.11.044.
- “The best results were obtained with P. ostreatus, which resulted in PCB removals of 18.5, 41.3 and 50.5% from the bulk, top (surface) and rhizosphere, respectively, of dumpsite soils after 12 weeks of treatment”
“Metabolism of phenanthrene by the white rot fungus Pleurotus ostreatus.”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8779594
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Section 4 -- Dyes
literally resistant to other clean up measures and carcinogenic in cases
nope, our mushroom friends said fuck it, i’ll turn that into a fruiting body
Bioremediation of Direct Blue 14 and Extracellular Ligninolytic Enzyme Production by White Rot Fungi: Pleurotus Spp. doi:10.1155/2013/180156
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Authored for BIOL 238 Microbiology, taught by Joan Slonczewski, 2018, Kenyon College.
