Mycelium, the Glossary
Mycelium (mycelia) is a root-like structure of a fungus consisting of a mass of branching, thread-like hyphae.[1]
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66 relations: Active transport, Agriculture, Arbuscular mycorrhiza, Armillaria, Artificial leather, Biocomposite, Biodegradation, Biomass, Biopolymer, Candida auris, Carbon cycle, Carbon dioxide, Carbon sink, Cast-in-place concrete, Coevolution, Compost, Compressive strength, Cornell University, CRC Press, Crop yield, Decomposition, Dikaryon, Ecosystem, Ectomycorrhizal extramatrical mycelium, Enzyme, Facilitated diffusion, Fertilizer, Fitness (biology), Fungus, Ganoderma sessile, Hypha, Landfill, Life-cycle assessment, Lignin, Mass noun, Micropia (museum), Mold, Monokaryon, Monomer, Municipal solid waste, Mushroom, Mycoremediation, Mycorrhiza, Natural environment, Nutrient, Organic farming, Organic horticulture, Pesticide, Petroleum, Photosynthesis, ... Expand index (16 more) »
Active transport
In cellular biology, active transport is the movement of molecules or ions across a cell membrane from a region of lower concentration to a region of higher concentration—against the concentration gradient.
See Mycelium and Active transport
Agriculture
Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, fisheries, and forestry for food and non-food products.
Arbuscular mycorrhiza
An arbuscular mycorrhiza (AM) (plural mycorrhizae) is a type of mycorrhiza in which the symbiont fungus (AM fungi, or AMF) penetrates the cortical cells of the roots of a vascular plant forming arbuscules.
See Mycelium and Arbuscular mycorrhiza
Armillaria
Armillaria is a genus of fungi that includes the A. mellea species known as honey fungi that live on trees and woody shrubs.
Artificial leather
Artificial leather, also called synthetic leather, is a material intended to substitute for leather in upholstery, clothing, footwear, and other uses where a leather-like finish is desired but the actual material is cost prohibitive or unsuitable, or for ethical concerns.
See Mycelium and Artificial leather
Biocomposite
A biocomposite is a composite material formed by a matrix (resin) and a reinforcement of natural fibers.
Biodegradation
Biodegradation is the breakdown of organic matter by microorganisms, such as bacteria and fungi.
See Mycelium and Biodegradation
Biomass
Biomass is a term used in several contexts: in the context of ecology it means living organisms, and in the context of bioenergy it means matter from recently living (but now dead) organisms.
Biopolymer
Biopolymers are natural polymers produced by the cells of living organisms.
Candida auris
Candida auris is a species of fungus that grows as yeast.
See Mycelium and Candida auris
Carbon cycle
The carbon cycle is that part of the biogeochemical cycle by which carbon is exchanged among the biosphere, pedosphere, geosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere of Earth.
Carbon dioxide
Carbon dioxide is a chemical compound with the chemical formula.
See Mycelium and Carbon dioxide
Carbon sink
A carbon sink is a natural or artificial carbon sequestration process that "removes a greenhouse gas, an aerosol or a precursor of a greenhouse gas from the atmosphere".
Cast-in-place concrete
Cast-in-place concrete or Cast-in-situ concrete is a technology of construction of buildings where walls and slabs of the buildings are cast at the site in formwork.
See Mycelium and Cast-in-place concrete
Coevolution
In biology, coevolution occurs when two or more species reciprocally affect each other's evolution through the process of natural selection.
Compost
Compost is a mixture of ingredients used as plant fertilizer and to improve soil's physical, chemical, and biological properties.
Compressive strength
In mechanics, compressive strength (or compression strength) is the capacity of a material or structure to withstand loads tending to reduce size (compression).
See Mycelium and Compressive strength
Cornell University
Cornell University is a private Ivy League land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York.
See Mycelium and Cornell University
CRC Press
The CRC Press, LLC is an American publishing group that specializes in producing technical books.
Crop yield
In agriculture, the yield is a measurement of the amount of a crop grown, or product such as wool, meat or milk produced, per unit area of land.
Decomposition
Decomposition or rot is the process by which dead organic substances are broken down into simpler organic or inorganic matter such as carbon dioxide, water, simple sugars and mineral salts.
See Mycelium and Decomposition
Dikaryon
The dikaryon is a nuclear feature that is unique to certain fungi.
Ecosystem
An ecosystem (or ecological system) is a system that environments and their organisms form through their interaction.
Ectomycorrhizal extramatrical mycelium (also known as extraradical mycelium) is the collection of filamentous fungal hyphae emanating from ectomycorrhizas. Mycelium and ectomycorrhizal extramatrical mycelium are fungal morphology and anatomy.
See Mycelium and Ectomycorrhizal extramatrical mycelium
Enzyme
Enzymes are proteins that act as biological catalysts by accelerating chemical reactions.
Facilitated diffusion
Facilitated diffusion (also known as facilitated transport or passive-mediated transport) is the process of spontaneous passive transport (as opposed to active transport) of molecules or ions across a biological membrane via specific transmembrane integral proteins.
See Mycelium and Facilitated diffusion
Fertilizer
A fertilizer (American English) or fertiliser (British English) is any material of natural or synthetic origin that is applied to soil or to plant tissues to supply plant nutrients.
Fitness (biology)
Fitness (often denoted w or ω in population genetics models) is a quantitative representation of individual reproductive success.
See Mycelium and Fitness (biology)
Fungus
A fungus (fungi or funguses) is any member of the group of eukaryotic organisms that includes microorganisms such as yeasts and molds, as well as the more familiar mushrooms.
Ganoderma sessile
Ganoderma sessile is a species of polypore fungus in the Ganodermataceae family.
See Mycelium and Ganoderma sessile
Hypha
A hypha (hyphae) is a long, branching, filamentous structure of a fungus, oomycete, or actinobacterium. Mycelium and hypha are fungal morphology and anatomy.
Landfill
A landfill is a site for the disposal of waste materials.
Life-cycle assessment
Life cycle assessment (LCA), also known as life cycle analysis, is a methodology for assessing environmental impacts associated with all the stages of the life cycle of a commercial product, process, or service.
See Mycelium and Life-cycle assessment
Lignin
Lignin is a class of complex organic polymers that form key structural materials in the support tissues of most plants.
Mass noun
In linguistics, a mass noun, uncountable noun, non-count noun, uncount noun, or just uncountable, is a noun with the syntactic property that any quantity of it is treated as an undifferentiated unit, rather than as something with discrete elements.
Micropia (museum)
Micropia is a museum in Amsterdam based on the idea of distributing information about microbes, which are often associated with illness and disease despite their essential function in the daily functioning of human life.
See Mycelium and Micropia (museum)
Mold
A mold or mould is one of the structures that certain fungi can form.
Monokaryon
A monokaryon is a fungal mycelium or hypha in which each cell contains a single nucleus.
Monomer
A monomer (mono-, "one" + -mer, "part") is a molecule that can react together with other monomer molecules to form a larger polymer chain or three-dimensional network in a process called polymerization.
Municipal solid waste
Municipal solid waste (MSW), commonly known as trash or garbage in the United States and rubbish in Britain, is a waste type consisting of everyday items that are discarded by the public.
See Mycelium and Municipal solid waste
Mushroom
A mushroom or toadstool is the fleshy, spore-bearing fruiting body of a fungus, typically produced above ground, on soil, or on its food source.
Mycoremediation (from ancient Greek, meaning "fungus", and the suffix, in Latin meaning 'restoring balance') is a form of bioremediation in which fungi-based remediation methods are used to decontaminate the environment.
See Mycelium and Mycoremediation
Mycorrhiza
A mycorrhiza (mycorrhiza, or mycorrhizas) is a symbiotic association between a fungus and a plant.
Natural environment
The natural environment or natural world encompasses all biotic and abiotic things occurring naturally, meaning in this case not artificial.
See Mycelium and Natural environment
Nutrient
A nutrient is a substance used by an organism to survive, grow and reproduce.
Organic farming
Organic farming, also known as ecological farming or biological farming,Labelling, article 30 of is an agricultural system that uses fertilizers of organic origin such as compost manure, green manure, and bone meal and places emphasis on techniques such as crop rotation and companion planting.
See Mycelium and Organic farming
Organic horticulture
Organic horticulture is the science and art of growing fruits, vegetables, flowers, or ornamental plants by following the essential principles of organic agriculture in soil building and conservation, pest management, and heirloom variety preservation.
See Mycelium and Organic horticulture
Pesticide
Pesticides are substances that are used to control pests.
Petroleum
Petroleum or crude oil, also referred to as simply oil, is a naturally occurring yellowish-black liquid mixture of mainly hydrocarbons, and is found in geological formations.
Photosynthesis
Photosynthesis is a system of biological processes by which photosynthetic organisms, such as most plants, algae, and cyanobacteria, convert light energy, typically from sunlight, into the chemical energy necessary to fuel their metabolism.
See Mycelium and Photosynthesis
Plant
Plants are the eukaryotes that form the kingdom Plantae; they are predominantly photosynthetic.
Polyester
Polyester is a category of polymers that contain one or two ester linkages in every repeat unit of their main chain.
Polylactic acid
Polylactic acid, also known as poly(lactic acid) or polylactide (PLA), is a thermoplastic polyester (or polyhydroxyalkanoate) with backbone formula or, formally obtained by condensation of lactic acid with loss of water (hence its name).
See Mycelium and Polylactic acid
Polystyrene
Polystyrene (PS) is a synthetic polymer made from monomers of the aromatic hydrocarbon styrene.
Polyurethane
Polyurethane (often abbreviated PUR and PU) refers to a class of polymers composed of organic units joined by carbamate (urethane) links.
Polyvinyl chloride
Polyvinyl chloride (alternatively: poly(vinyl chloride), colloquial: vinyl or polyvinyl; abbreviated: PVC) is the world's third-most widely produced synthetic polymer of plastic (after polyethylene and polypropylene).
See Mycelium and Polyvinyl chloride
Sclerotium
A sclerotium (sclerotia, is a compact mass of hardened fungal mycelium containing food reserves. One role of sclerotia is to survive environmental extremes. In some higher fungi such as ergot, sclerotia become detached and remain dormant until favorable growth conditions return. Sclerotia initially were mistaken for individual organisms and described as separate species until Louis René Tulasne proved in 1853 that sclerotia are only a stage in the life cycle of some fungi. Mycelium and sclerotium are fungal morphology and anatomy.
Soil
Soil, also commonly referred to as earth or dirt, is a mixture of organic matter, minerals, gases, liquids, and organisms that together support the life of plants and soil organisms.
Soil conditioner
A soil conditioner is a product which is added to soil to improve the soil’s physical qualities, usually its fertility (ability to provide nutrition for plants) and sometimes its mechanics.
See Mycelium and Soil conditioner
Species
A species (species) is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction.
Spore
In biology, a spore is a unit of sexual (in fungi) or asexual reproduction that may be adapted for dispersal and for survival, often for extended periods of time, in unfavourable conditions. Mycelium and spore are fungal morphology and anatomy.
Sporocarp (fungus)
The sporocarp (also known as fruiting body, fruit body or fruitbody) of fungi is a multicellular structure on which spore-producing structures, such as basidia or asci, are borne. Mycelium and sporocarp (fungus) are fungal morphology and anatomy.
See Mycelium and Sporocarp (fungus)
Substrate (biology)
In biology, a substrate is the surface on which an organism (such as a plant, fungus, or animal) lives.
See Mycelium and Substrate (biology)
Substrate (chemistry)
In chemistry, the term substrate is highly context-dependent.
See Mycelium and Substrate (chemistry)
Thermal conductivity and resistivity
The thermal conductivity of a material is a measure of its ability to conduct heat.
See Mycelium and Thermal conductivity and resistivity
Woody plant
Bold text A woody plant is a plant that produces wood as its structural tissue and thus has a hard stem.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycelium
Also known as Mycelia, Mycelial, Mycelially, Mycellium, Mycillium.
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