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Re: plastic eating fungus and termite defense fungus [Re: anthiawe]
    #23908638 - 12/08/16 10:18 PM (7 years, 1 month ago)



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Re: plastic eating fungus and termite defense fungus [Re: cosmicaug]
    #23913372 - 12/10/16 02:51 PM (7 years, 1 month ago)

Lots of Pestalotiopsis already being passed around, or at least a lot of people have it. There was a group buy on here a while back that purchased the culture from ATCC.

Pestalotiopsis can also be cultured from pretty much anywhere, there is some indication that multiple Pestalotiopsis species may possess the ability to eat plastic.

I accidentally cultured some off the skin of a Ganoderma from Florida. I was going to do some plastic eating experiments but life got in the way and I haven't gotten around to doing them yet. I will probably have to revive both my culture and the P.microspora from ATCC at some point in the future. The good thing is Pestalotiopsis readily forms conidospores in culture so if it dries out it should be easy to revive again.


Also, it has wicked cool alien spores. Each one is cone shaped with three flagella on one end and a single flagella on the other.






The spores appear as a thick inky black liquid that forms on the mycelium.



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Re: plastic eating fungus and termite defense fungus [Re: Mrcloudy]
    #23913419 - 12/10/16 03:05 PM (7 years, 1 month ago)

Very interesting, thanks for the post.

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Re: plastic eating fungus and termite defense fungus [Re: Ferather]
    #23913455 - 12/10/16 03:21 PM (7 years, 1 month ago)

Its apparently a common plant pathogen, infects the leaves causing black spotting. I meant to look for some this year but it totally slipped my mind and now its winter... :facepalm:

But I think it would be great to get people out and looking for local strains and selecting those that work best for plastic. A whole world of possibilities might await us, just sitting out there in our back yards.


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Re: plastic eating fungus and termite defense fungus [Re: Mrcloudy]
    #23913464 - 12/10/16 03:23 PM (7 years, 1 month ago)

I have a suspicion that it might have developed its plastic eating abilities as a side effect of being able to breach the waxy coating that many plant species have on their leaves. It might be able to eat PVC too as one study I found collected a sample from the PVC rubber gasket from a refrigerator with no other food source.


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Re: plastic eating fungus and termite defense fungus [Re: Mrcloudy]
    #23919955 - 12/12/16 03:00 PM (7 years, 1 month ago)




looking clean!.. weird, but clean. cant remember the name for the type of fungus it is, the kind that lives inside of a plant. anyways, LC is getting made up and will be ready for trade very soon.


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Re: plastic eating fungus and termite defense fungus [Re: anthiawe]
    #23921690 - 12/13/16 04:51 AM (7 years, 1 month ago)

endophytic - thats what kind of fungus!



https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3243618/

the power of fungi is amazing. I'll be writing a proposal for a development project in Ghana in January/February, hope to include the plastic eater and Metarhizium anisopliae for malaria mosquitoes. termite may be less of an interest now as i'm caught up in research for preventing malaria. anyways, hope others find the article interesting.


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Re: plastic eating fungus and termite defense fungus [Re: anthiawe]
    #23922239 - 12/13/16 10:47 AM (7 years, 1 month ago)

I have on my property , the remnants of a auto salvage yard .With everything from oils fuels plastic, rubberwood ,cement,,,, you name it.All this is situated in a sand pit with a little water at the bottom.Point is I want to clean up the "dump" with the aid of mushrooms and a little elbo grease. I grabbed a bit of myc from a super aggressive mushroom that grows everywhere here(looks kind like oysters to me)for trials.This fungi grew underneath a maple stump I use to prop up an anvil in my garage on the greasy grimey, cold floor and fruited! This pestopopsicle looks like something I need to study.


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Re: plastic eating fungus and termite defense fungus [Re: Pinpapa]
    #23934782 - 12/17/16 08:32 AM (7 years, 1 month ago)

5 LC syringes ready, for trade in the market place


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Re: plastic eating fungus and termite defense fungus [Re: anthiawe]
    #23934935 - 12/17/16 09:53 AM (7 years, 1 month ago)

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