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"Mycelium"

MYCELIUM IS A FUNGUS THAT USUALY GROWS ON BREAD.

Actually, "mycelium" is the word for the vegetative part of any fungus, regardless of where it grows. It is not specific to any particular kind of fungus. 68.239.240.160 02:13, 2 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Misleading Statement

I'm going to remove this from the bottom of the article: Mycelium can also be used to cultivate psilocin and psilocybin mushrooms. I feel that it's needless, and factually misleading. --justing magpie 16:41, 28 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Vegetative

Can an expert in this field please expand on or link to the meaning of 'vegetative' in the opening sentence. Vegetative is a disambiguation page and as a non-expert I am uncertain which applies. Thanks. Derek Andrews (talk) 17:34, 6 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Done Sasata (talk) 21:12, 6 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Proof Read

Can someone proof read this article? Several parts in it seem to start with a question but ends with a period. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.6.162.53 (talk) 14:23, 23 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the note. I gave the article a quick once-over and made some minor changes, but I couldn't see the problem you're referring to. Could you be more specific? Adrian J. Hunter^{(talk•contribs)} 15:03, 23 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Not just fungi

I'm reading a paper about Streptomyces (a bacterium) which says "Streptomycete hyphae which are much smaller (0·5 – 2·0 μ in diameter) than fungal hyphae and form an extensively branched mycelium. These hyphae eventually develop aerial mycelium, giving colonies on solid growth medium a fuzzy appearance. Aerial mycelium fragments into chains of spores". Are there other bacterial genera that also form mycelia and if so should we update the article accordingly? SmartSE (talk) 11:42, 3 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Mycobacteria, such as Mycobacterium tuberculosis, are similar. They belong to a group called Actinobacteria, which are considered a transition group between Bacteria and Fungi.174.25.208.185 (talk) 09:09, 29 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Broken Link

In the External Links of this article, the following link is broken. Mycofiltration: A novel approach for the bio-transformation of abandoned logging roads --ThatNateGuy (talk) 15:36, 25 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Mycelia

The article stated that mycelia wasn't a word and gave a print source. Mycelia is in fact a word according to the Oxford English Dictionary. I have edited the article accordingly. 174.25.208.185 (talk) 08:38, 29 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Your edit is consistent with my understanding. The claim that "mycelia" is not a word was added in these edits. But based on a response at my talk page, I got the impression the cited reference did not explicitly support the claim. Does your dictionary explicitly state that "mycelium" is a mass noun? I'm looking for a source to support that (the dictionaries I can find aren't detailed enough). Adrian J. Hunter^{(talk•contribs)} 13:59, 29 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Wallet

I came here looking for the bitcoin wallet by the same name. Benjamin (talk) 11:28, 4 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I trust you found this article more useful. Velella ^{Velella Talk} 01:43, 7 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Petroleum And Pesticides As 'Organic Molecules'

"Petroleum products and some pesticides (typical soil contaminants) are organic molecules (i.e., they are built on a carbon structure), and thereby present a potential carbon source for fungi." If anyone wants to grow mushrooms, I would advice against using oil and Roundup as a foodsource. This sounds as convincing as Ronald Reagan listing Ketchup as a vegetable - after all, it is based on tomatoes... 83.84.100.133 (talk) 22:14, 6 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I guess this is one of the problems of confounding fungal mycelium with mushrooms. Fungi do have an important part to play in remdiation of organic soil contaminantion, but I doubt that the fruiting bodies are in any way suitable as a source of food. The chance of a field mushroom being good at metabolising exotic organic compunds seems unlikely. There are probably several Ph.Ds that could be written just on this one topic! Velella ^{Velella Talk} 01:43, 7 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Popular culture section anyone?

I feel that it might be worth including a section on mycelium in poular culture (Star Trek: Discovery). Anyone else think this is a good idea? Julien Cameron (talk) 20:46, 23 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Not to mention the block's important nature in *Minecraft*. 2607:FEA8:601:EB00:FCCF:3A60:A40A:4A5E (talk) 23:03, 18 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Mycelium for Pollution

Mycelium has been urged for reduction in some forms of chemical and thermal pollution through sequestration in soil. Is mycelium an effective sequestration technology and can it scale sufficiently to have a significant climate impact? HiveMind is at the beginning stage of commercializing a biological climate solution through ectomycorrhizal mycelium to capture and sequester significant amounts of atmospheric CO2 in soils. The firm has two of the world's top ten carbon emitters, Cummins Diesel and Shell Oil, as clients. Shell has ordered pilots on a series of service stations in London before considering the firm for possible global adoption to 44,000 service stations worldwide. HiveMind seeks additional working capital to fund these projects, so some investors believe in carbon sequestration through soil, though many scientists may not yet fully believe in its feasibility, which working projects would need to demonstrate quantitatively.^[1]MaynardClark (talk) 16:15, 15 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Can mycelium reverse climate change?

Mycelium as food

Under "Uses," mycelium as a source of food or food ingredient should be added. Something like "Mycelium has a long tradition in food production and as a food ingredient, such as in tempeh (Tempeh - Wikipedia)." RWestW (talk) 21:29, 24 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Sources are needed to add new content, namely ones that specifically would focus on mycelia. KoA (talk) 22:05, 25 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The tempeh article mentions mycelium ten times. I will look for a corroborating source outside of wikipedia for the role of mycelium in foods. RWestW (talk) 22:25, 25 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Cycelium 36.37.205.29 (talk) 01:46, 6 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Not just pussycats

The whole article lauds all the positive aspects of mycelium. - No word of their horrible, devastating. detrimental and toxic effects on human food like meat, bread, dairy, fruit etc. And also in human and other animal or even plants' tissue. 2001:9E8:259:FF00:F0BA:EAE6:5283:FBE3 (talk) 02:09, 2 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki Education assignment: The Microbiology of College Life

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 22 January 2024 and 11 May 2024. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Zachalberthalevy (article contribs).

— Assignment last updated by Jason.DeLaCruz1313 (talk) 00:30, 10 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

[1] Can mycelium reverse climate change?

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