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mycoremediator en · NOUN

Etymology

By surface analysis, myco- + remediator, or, by surface analysis, mycoremediate + -or.

Meanings

1. Any fungus used for mycoremediation.
   • You have to think a little differently to grow mycoremediators compared to raising edible mushrooms for the dinner plate. 2022, Anna Hess, Weekend Homesteader: Spring:
   • Its main current economic interest is based on its use as a biocontrol agent in agriculture and as a producer of enzymes in different industries (Jangir et al. 2017), although in recent years its relevance in other sectors has been increasing, as a promoter of plant growth and tolerance to abioltic stresses (Poveda et al. 2019a; Poveda 2020), source of genes for use in biotechnology (Poveda et al. 2019b), or mycoremediator. 2022, N. Amaresan, A. Sankaranarayanan, Mitesh Kumar Dwivedi, Advances in Trichoderma Biology for Agricultural Applications, page 472:
   • Till date fungi belonging to some major genera viz., Acremonium, Agrocybe, Alternaria, Aspergillus, Bjerkandera, Boletus, Candida, Cephalosporium, Cladosporium, Cordyceps, Doratomyces, Fusarium, Ganodrma, Geotrichum, Gliocladium, Hypholoma, Lecanicillium, Lentinus, Morierella, Mucor, Paecilomyces, Penicillium, Phanerochaete, Phlebia, Phoma, Pleurotus, Polyporus, Rhizopus, Thodotolura, Saccharomyces, Streptomyces, Talaromyces, Torulopsis, Trametes, and Trichoderma have been tested and employed for mycoremediation and Phanerochaete chrysosporium has been reported as the most capable model mycoremediator. ' 2021, Gowhar Hamid Dar, Khalid Rehman Hakeem, Mohammad Aneesul Mehmood, Freshwater Pollution and Aquatic Ecosystems, page 245:
   • Extensive studies desired for exploration of fungi as a potential mycoremediator in order to attain agricultural sustainability are discussed by Purohit et al. in Chap. 4. 2018, Ram Prasad, Mycoremediation and Environmental Sustainability: Volume 2, page vi:
2. A person or company engaged in mycoremediation.
   • Q: What tips would you have for the grassroots mycoremediator? 2013, Leila Darwish, Earth Repair, page 176:
   • The challenges faced by mycoremediators' are analogous to thse faced by brewers— without suitable conditions, yeast will struggle to remediate the sugar in a barrel of grape juics into alcohol— except that the wine barrel is a contaminated ecosystem and we're inside it. 2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 206:

Forms

Coordinates

phytoremediator · phytoremediator

Hypernyms

bioremediator · remediator · bioremediator · remediator

Relateds

bioremediate · bioremediation