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Feelers
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Re: Pestalotiopsis microspora [Re: Ganzig]
#16393981 - 06/17/12 09:08 AM (11 years, 10 months ago) |
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Am I the only one who thinks this might actually be worse for the environment? Releasing the CO2 from landfills or anywhere seems like a really bad idea. I can't understand the benefits from this.
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pseudotsuga



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Re: Pestalotiopsis microspora [Re: Feelers]
#16394566 - 06/17/12 11:16 AM (11 years, 10 months ago) |
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Feelers said: Am I the only one who thinks this might actually be worse for the environment? Releasing the CO2 from landfills or anywhere seems like a really bad idea. I can't understand the benefits from this.
Landfills are known for naturally releasing a lot of methane gas, which is a worse contributor to global warming than carbon dioxide.
here is one small example of the gigantic problem posed by plastic waste to environmental and human health. This is an albatross that died from accidentally swallowing plastic bottle caps .
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Alan Rockefeller
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Re: Pestalotiopsis microspora [Re: Feelers]
#16395033 - 06/17/12 12:44 PM (11 years, 10 months ago) |
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Feelers said: Am I the only one who thinks this might actually be worse for the environment? Releasing the CO2 from landfills or anywhere seems like a really bad idea. I can't understand the benefits from this.
If it's already buried, it's probably best to leave it there.
If there is a site that is contaminated with plastic debris, this might help them break down.
I got an email from the guy who found the plastic, he said "The pvc eating fungi growths very slow, and the saprofites very rapid, for initial soil fungi isolation we use the PDA + Streptomicyn + Bengal rose media, thats inhibit bacteria and actynomicetes."
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Javadog
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Re: Pestalotiopsis microspora [Re: pseudotsuga]
#16396012 - 06/17/12 05:23 PM (11 years, 10 months ago) |
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Wow pseudo, that bird looks like some sad mannerist painting.
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Ganzig
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Re: Pestalotiopsis microspora [Re: Feelers]
#16405750 - 06/19/12 08:12 PM (11 years, 10 months ago) |
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Feelers said: Am I the only one who thinks this might actually be worse for the environment? Releasing the CO2 from landfills or anywhere seems like a really bad idea. I can't understand the benefits from this.
Interesting point. Cellular respiration releases co2. I don't know how many tonnes of co2 would be released by this. I only know the krebs cycle. It works with glucose. I have no idea how these fungi break this stuff down. Ill ask my business partner when he returns from vacation to look into it. He is a chemist. Worth looking into. What suggestion for removing plastics from the environment do you have? Also, what about replacing methane releasing micro organisms with the fungi?
Ooops. Did not see that pseudotsuga mentioned the methane.
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Re: Pestalotiopsis microspora [Re: Ganzig]
#16406872 - 06/19/12 11:48 PM (11 years, 10 months ago) |
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It would all be fine if we'd make plastic from carbon compounds, which are already in the biological cycle. Getting up crude oil and manufacturing plastic from it is the problem.
Carsten
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morbiddoctor
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Re: Pestalotiopsis microspora [Re: Mycelio]
#16489946 - 07/06/12 12:14 PM (11 years, 10 months ago) |
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I am interested in doing some experiments with this fungus. I think it is amazing that nature has a solution for the problems we create. Does anyone have a culture of this yet?
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Ganzig
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I am still waiting.
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Re: Pestalotiopsis microspora [Re: Ganzig]
#16573198 - 07/23/12 09:54 AM (11 years, 9 months ago) |
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I found this paper which looks at bacteria and fungi which biodegrade plastics. It discusses Aspergillus, Penicillium, Phaenarochete, Pestalotiopsis, and possibly some other species. Communities of Microbial Enzymes Associated with Biodegradation of Plastics
Does anyone have access to the full paper?
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Amphibolos
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Re: Pestalotiopsis microspora [Re: neophit]
#16596933 - 07/26/12 11:49 PM (11 years, 9 months ago) |
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When hydrolysing the plastic, the carbon is majoritary converted into fungal biomass that can be used be the other members of the food chain when the mycelium dies.
Its false to think that everything will be released as CO2...
Also, Alan
If you sequence it, are you going to publish the result on PlOS one? If so i'd be interested to have access to the data
Implemanting and expressing the metabolical pathway into a suitable vector (T. reesei or S. cerevisiae for example) could lead to plastics degradation factories...
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Re: Pestalotiopsis microspora [Re: Ganzig]
#16596954 - 07/26/12 11:56 PM (11 years, 9 months ago) |
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Wow! This is some very interesting stuff!
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Ganzig
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Re: Pestalotiopsis microspora [Re: Amphibolos]
#16598906 - 07/27/12 10:44 AM (11 years, 9 months ago) |
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Amphibolos said:
Its false to think that everything will be released as CO2...
Thank you for putting that to rest.
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Re: Pestalotiopsis microspora [Re: Avoidit89]
#16607431 - 07/28/12 05:54 PM (11 years, 9 months ago) |
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I have a bubbletea shop here in Puerto Rico and I wanted to see if I can get some of these spores so that I can use it to break down all the plastic cups we use. Can you point me to where I can get the spores?
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Ganzig
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Re: Pestalotiopsis microspora [Re: surgio98]
#16608429 - 07/28/12 10:34 PM (11 years, 9 months ago) |
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I think everyone is still waiting on their samples. I know I am. After the samples are obtained then we will isolate all the different species that are present and figure out which are doing the work. Or which combination of species is doing the work.
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Alan Rockefeller
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Re: Pestalotiopsis microspora [Re: Ganzig]
#16671830 - 08/09/12 03:24 PM (11 years, 9 months ago) |
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Amphibolos said: If you sequence it, are you going to publish the result on PlOS one? If so i'd be interested to have access to the data
What is PIOS one? I usually post sequences in the thread. I might add it to genbank.
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Ganzig said: I think everyone is still waiting on their samples. I know I am.
The guy in Panama said he sent out samples to you and one other person (I think it was peatmoss) one month ago.
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pseudotsuga


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Alan Rockefeller said:
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Amphibolos said: If you sequence it, are you going to publish the result on PlOS one? If so i'd be interested to have access to the data
What is PIOS one? I usually post sequences in the thread. I might add it to genbank.
I assume he is talking about PLOS one journals which is an open access peer reviewed scientific journal.
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Late response, but no I didn't give anyone my address yet if I remember correctly. Has anyone heard anything from the guy?
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Ganzig
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Re: Pestalotiopsis microspora [Re: peatmoss]
#16678025 - 08/10/12 05:35 PM (11 years, 9 months ago) |
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Alan has spoken with him. He sent out a sample to me about a month ago. It has yet to arrive.
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Re: Pestalotiopsis microspora [Re: Ganzig]
#16678058 - 08/10/12 05:39 PM (11 years, 9 months ago) |
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I gave him 2 addresses and he said he sent them to both. I haven't been able to figure out who the second person was, it was someone I didn't know, but they seemed pretty serious. Appears that I have deleted their PM's.
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Amphibolos
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I'm only interested in the genomic data atm
So it could be nice to notify me when it is sequenced 
[Edit] Didnt see the other post, genbank will be good enough hehe
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Edited by Amphibolos (08/11/12 01:05 AM)
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