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Huntsville, Ontario
Presentation Outline
What are Fungi, and what do they do? Past uses of Fungi by humans Present uses Fungi for food, health and wellness: some perspectives for Northern Ontario
Asexual Reproduction
Jean-Marc Moncalvo
http://home.wanadoo.nl/abiemans/e_mycelium.html
Asexual Reproduction
x vo
Asexual Reproduction
Microfungi
x vo
Macrofungi
Wood-rot
(pic. from E. Barnatrd)
Litter decay
http://www.anbg.gov.au/
http://media.web.britannica.com/
Nematode-trapping fungus
(pic. from G. Barron)
http://homesremedies.net/
Insect killers
Diseases of plants including commercially important trees and cereals, e.g., Smut on corn
http://bioweb.uwlax.edu/
http://grainandgrain.files.wordpress.com/
http://canadasrock.ca/
http://bigfatwine.com/
http://static.guim.co.uk/
http://www.popsci.com/
http://www.wellnet-bolt.hu/
Cyclosporin, etc
Fungi for Food, Health and Wellness : Some perspectives for Northern Ontario
Mushroom farming
Exist already locally? YES Is its practice innovative? NO
Only the classics are cultivated: button mushrooms, portobellos, oyster mushrooms, shiitake, and a few others
Fungi for Food, Health and Wellness : Some perspectives for Northern Ontario
Forest mushrooms
Wild edible mushrooms are not harvested
(and there are plenty of them!!!) ----- Lack of consumer awareness locally ----- No system in place for exportation to the international market
$$ Infrastructure / investment for improvements: low $$ in return? Overall low, but could be significant for entrepreneurs and for people living in remote communities close to the wilderness.
Fungi for Food, Health and Wellness : Some perspectives for Northern Ontario
Forest mushrooms
Wild edible mushrooms are not harvested
(and there are plenty of them!!!) ----- Lack of consumer awareness locally ----- No system in place for exportation to the international market
$$ Infrastructure / investment for improvements: low $$ in return? Overall low, but could be significant for entrepreneurs and for people living in remote communities close to the wilderness.
Fungi for Food, Health and Wellness : Some perspectives for Northern Ontario
Forest mushrooms
Limited use of ectomycorrhizal mushroom (EM) in reforestation projects / ecosystem health
----- There is limited biological knowledge of the EM-tree system ----- This is still a field in need of basic scientific research $$-wise: ----- not for investors; GAIA phylantrops welcome! ----- in Canada, funding for basic science is being drastically cut by the current government.
Fungi for Food, Health and Wellness : Some perspectives for Northern Ontario
Fungi for Food, Health and Wellness : Some perspectives for Northern Ontario
Fungi for Food, Health and Wellness : Some perspectives for Northern Ontario
[but definitively YES when partnering with research facilities that are available in Toronto, in Canada, and / or internationally]
$$ Infrastructure / investment for Research & Development: high Potential $$ in return? High to very high
Acknowledgments
Rob Deline, for organizing this venue Richard Worsfold and the OCE, for having supported an earlier research proposal on the topic of fungal metabolites The ROM Governors, NSERC, CFI and Genome Canada for having supported my research on Fungi in the last ten years