Project description:The white button mushroom Agaricus bisporus is the most widely produced edible fungus with a great economical value. Its commercial cultivation process is often performed on wheat straw and animal manure based compost that mainly contains lignocellulosic material as a source of carbon and nutrients for the mushroom production. As a large portion of compost carbohydrates are left unused in the current mushroom cultivation process, the aim of this work was to study wild-type A. bisporus strains for their potential to convert the components that are poorly utilized by the commercial strain A15. Growth profiling suggested different abilities for several A. bisporus strains to use plant biomass derived polysaccharides, as well as to transport and metabolize the corresponding monomeric sugars. Six wild-type isolates with diverse growth profiles were compared for mushroom production to A15 strain in semi-commercial cultivation conditions. Transcriptome and proteome analyses of the three most interesting wild-type strains and A15 indicated that the unrelated A. bisporus strains degrade and convert plant biomass polymers in a highly similar manner. This was also supported by the chemical content of the compost during the mushroom production process. Our study therefore reveals a highly conserved physiology for unrelated strains of this species during growth in compost.
Project description:The edible mushroom Agaricus blazei Murill has immunomodulating and antiproliferative effects. In a clinical study 33 patients with multiple myeloma were randomized to receive treatment with Agaricus (16 patients) or placebo (17 patients) in addition to chemotherapy.
Project description:The edible mushroom Agaricus blazei Murill has immunomodulating and antiproliferative effects. In a clinical study 33 patients with multiple myeloma were randomized to receive treatment with Agaricus (16 patients) or placebo (17 patients) in addition to chemotherapy. Gene expression profiles were analyzed before and after treatment in 8 patients in the agaricus group and in 6 patients in the control group and the differences were calculated
Project description:The common edible mushroom Agaricus bisporus is a basidiomycete that thrives on decaying plant material in the forests and grasslands of North America and Europe. It is adapted to forest litter and contributes to global carbon recycling, degrading cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin in plant biomass to oligomers and monomers. A. bisporus is also an edible mushroom that is widely cultivated and economically important. However, relatively little is known about how A. bisporus grows in this controlled environment and utilizes its substrate. Using transcriptomics and proteomics, we showed that changes in plant biomass degradation by A. bisporus occur throughout its life cycle. Ligninolytic genes were highly expressed during the spawning stage day 16 and had low expression during all the other growth stages which could indicate that lignin is not modified after the spawning stage. Our results also revealed differences in gene expression involved in cellulose and hemicellulose degradation between the first and second flushes. This could partially explain the reduction in the number of mushrooms during the second flush. This study compares the gene expression of A. bisporus A15 at different stages of its life cycle using the controlled environment of indoor commercial cultivation. The samples were taken at the spawning stage, primordial stage, first flush, after first flush, second flush and after second flush, respectively
Project description:The common edible mushroom Agaricus bisporus is a basidiomycete that thrives on decaying plant material in the forests and grasslands of North America and Europe. It is adapted to forest litter and contributes to global carbon recycling, degrading cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin in plant biomass to oligomers and monomers. A. bisporus is also an edible mushroom that is widely cultivated and economically important. However, relatively little is known about how A. bisporus grows in this controlled environment and utilizes its substrate. Using transcriptomics and proteomics, we showed that changes in plant biomass degradation by A. bisporus occur throughout its life cycle. Ligninolytic genes were highly expressed during the spawning stage day 16 and had low expression during all the other growth stages which could indicate that lignin is not modified after the spawning stage. Our results also revealed differences in gene expression involved in cellulose and hemicellulose degradation between the first and second flushes. This could partially explain the reduction in the number of mushrooms during the second flush.
Project description:Mushroom bodies (MBs) are the centers for olfactory associative learning and elementary cognitive functions in the Drosophila brain. To get insights of the repertoire of MB genes that control initiation and maintenance of neural differentiation as well as the repertoire of neural factors that may have functions in the synaptic plasticity of MB neurons during learning and memory, we compared the transcript profiles between wild type and MB-ablated brains using a Drosophila whole-genome microarray. Newly hatched larvae were briefly administered with a DNA-synthesis inhibitor, hydroxyurea, and raised to adults, from which total brain RNA was analyzed. Keywords: Chemical Ablation of Mushroom bodies from Drosophila brain
Project description:The blue light receptor WC-2 was shown to be involved in mushroom development in the basidiomycete Schizophyllum commune. When the gene encoding WC-2 was deleted, no mushrooms formed and colony morphology was radial. This phenotype was similar to the wild-type colony grown in the dark. This phenotype could be complemented by transforming the wc-2 deletion strain with a construct encompassing the wc-2 coding sequence under the control of the heat inducible promoter hsp3. A daily heat shock of 1 hour at 42 degrees Celsius resulted in mushroom development and an asymmetrical colony. In this study we performed a genome-wide expression analysis on dikaryons of wild-type (not heat shocked), delta-wc2 (heat shocked or not heat shocked) and the complemented strain delta-wc2 hsp3-wc2 (heat shocked or not heat shocked).
Project description:The common edible mushroom Agaricus bisporus is a basidiomycete that thrives on decaying plant material in the forests and grasslands of North America and Europe. It is adapted to forest litter and contributes to global carbon recycling, depolymerizing cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin in plant biomass. A. bisporus is also an edible mushroom that is widely cultivated and economically important. However, relatively little is known about how A. bisporus grows in this controlled environment in commercial production facilities and utilizes its substrate. Using transcriptomics and proteomics, we showed that changes in plant biomass degradation by A. bisporus occur throughout its life cycle. Ligninolytic genes were highly expressed during the spawning stage day 16 and had low expression during all the other growth stages which could indicate that lignin is not modified after the spawning stage. Our results also revealed differences in gene expression involved in cellulose and hemicellulose degradation between the first and second flushes. This could partially explain the reduction in the number of mushrooms during the second flush.
Project description:The blue light receptor WC-2 was shown to be involved in mushroom development in the basidiomycete Schizophyllum commune. When the gene encoding WC-2 was deleted, no mushrooms formed and colony morphology was radial. This phenotype was similar to the wild-type colony grown in the dark. This phenotype could be complemented by transforming the wc-2 deletion strain with a construct encompassing the wc-2 coding sequence under the control of the heat inducible promoter hsp3. A daily heat shock of 1 hour at 42 degrees Celsius resulted in mushroom development and an asymmetrical colony. In this study we performed a genome-wide expression analysis on dikaryons of wild-type (not heat shocked), delta-wc2 (heat shocked or not heat shocked) and the complemented strain delta-wc2 hsp3-wc2 (heat shocked or not heat shocked). A total of five samples were analyzed. One wild-type (not heat shocked), delta-wc2 (heat shocked or not heat shocked) and the complemented strain delta-wc2 hsp3-wc2 (heat shocked or not heat shocked).