• This is why compost piles dramatically shrink as they mature.
The Multi-Kingdom Approach to Decontaminating Toxic Waste Sites
• Life springs from mycelium.
• One of them, Meruliporia incrassata, an example of house wrecker fungi, causes millions of dollars of damage to the understructures of houses across North America.
• This bacterial influx predisposes habitats for the emergence of plant communities.
• Ultimately, nature fosters complex partnerships of interdependence, with fungi blazing the path to ecological recovery.
• The vast majority of the cultures surveyed avoided the preservative-saturated wood, except for some aggressive strains of Meruliporia incrassata and Antrodia radiculosa that showed no reluctance and gobbled up the wood.
• Enzymes secreted by this group’s mycelia include lignin peroxidases, manganese peroxidases, and laccases (Schliephake et al. 2003).