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<p>Investigations of biologically active substances sourced from xylotrophic macromycetes have shown their fundamental and practical significance. These studies have promoted the development of biotechnologies by obtaining the valuable products from the mycelial biomass and cultivation liquid and using these fungal species in “white chemistry”. Research into environmentally safe biological methods of stimulating the growth of medicinal and edible mushrooms can assist the development of scientific foundations of culture technologies. From the viewpoint of their bio-technological potential, selected factors of biological origin that promote the growth of wide-scale cultivated basidiomycetes are of interest. Improving mushroom resistance against negative environmental impacts seems to be feasible when the mushroom grows in combination with growth-promoting bacteria. The soil bacteria from the Azospirillum genus have attracted attention, as microorganisms are capable of actively influencing the growth and development of agricultural crops. Thus, revealing and exploring the growth-promoting properties of different species of Azospirillum with respect to edible and/or medicinal mushrooms, as well as the properties promoting the suppression of contaminants in double culture, are believed to be feasible and to reveal undoubted novelty. Cultivation jointly with the beneficial bacteria is a more effective biotechnological method for obtaining this valuable functional food faster, with a greater and much better and maintained mushroom yield. Future work involves addressing the problems of mushroom growth promoting bacterial interactions with mushrooms and implementing these synthetic microbial associations into agriculture.</p>
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Investigations of biologically active substances sourced from xylotrophic macromycetes have shown their fundamental and practical significance. These studies have promoted the development of biotechnologies by obtaining the valuable products from the mycelial biomass and cultivation liquid and using these fungal species in “white chemistry”. Research into environmentally safe biological methods of stimulating the growth of medicinal and edible mushrooms can assist the development of scientific foundations of culture technologies. From the viewpoint of their bio-technological potential, selected factors of biological origin that promote the growth of wide-scale cultivated basidiomycetes are of interest. Improving mushroom resistance against negative environmental impacts seems to be feasible when the mushroom grows in combination with growth-promoting bacteria. The soil bacteria from the Azospirillum genus have attracted attention, as microorganisms are capable of actively influencing the growth and development of agricultural crops. Thus, revealing and exploring the growth-promoting properties of different species of Azospirillum with respect to edible and/or medicinal mushrooms, as well as the properties promoting the suppression of contaminants in double culture, are believed to be feasible and to reveal undoubted novelty. Cultivation jointly with the beneficial bacteria is a more effective biotechnological method for obtaining this valuable functional food faster, with a greater and much better and maintained mushroom yield. Future work involves addressing the problems of mushroom growth promoting bacterial interactions with mushrooms and implementing these synthetic microbial associations into agriculture.

Edible Mushrooms Could Take Advantage of the Growth-Promoting and Biocontrol Potential of <italic>Azospirillum</italic>

Proceedings of the Latvian Academy of Sciences. Section B. Natural, Exact, and Applied Sciences.

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Edible Mushrooms Could Take Advantage of the Growth-Promoting and Biocontrol Potential of 

Investigations of biologically active substances sourced from xylotrophic macromycetes have shown their fundamental and practical significance. These studies...

Edible Mushrooms Could Take Advantage of the Growth-Promoting and Biocontrol Potential of Azospirillum

Publié en ligne: 02 juin 2022

Pages: 211 - 217

Reçu: 21 janv. 2021

Accepté: 02 nov. 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/prolas-2022-0032

Mots clés
xylotrophic basidiomycetes, PGPR, fungal-bacterial coculture, MGPB

© 2022 Olga Tsivileva et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Edible Mushrooms Could Take Advantage of the Growth-Promoting and Biocontrol Potential of Azospirillum

Publié en ligne: 02 juin 2022

Pages: 211 - 217

Reçu: 21 janv. 2021

Accepté: 02 nov. 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/prolas-2022-0032

Mots clésxylotrophic basidiomycetes, PGPR, fungal-bacterial coculture, MGPB

© 2022 Olga Tsivileva et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Mots clés
xylotrophic basidiomycetes, PGPR, fungal-bacterial coculture, MGPB