Innovative New Fungal Products Produced with Solid Substrate Fermentation

摘要

The mushroom industry has a long history of using solid substrate fermentation for the production of spawn and growing substrates. Our laboratory is engaged in a number of projects designed to expand our use of this core technology beyond the mushroom industry. Production of several new products such as Red Yeast Rice, spore forming biopesticides including the mycoherbicide, Smolder,™ and the production of specialty chemicals for use in the agriculture, food and pharmaceutical sectors will be discussed. In addition we are combining the use of solid substrate fermentation with recombinant DNA technology in order to develop the cultivated button mushroom as a platform for the production of additional unique products.