DAHM, HANNA, HENRYK RÓZYCKI, KATARZYNA REDLAK & EDMUND STRZELCZYK.
Department of Microbiology, Institute of General & Molecular Biology, Nicholas Copernicus University, Gagarina 9, 87-100 Toruñ, POLAND.
The effect of culture media and growth conditions (aeration, pH, temperature and light) on biomass production by two strains of pure cultures of the edible ectomycorrhizal fungus: Cantharellus cibarius was studied. It was found that the biomass production depended not only on the medium (nutritional factors), but also on the pH of the medium and temperature of culturing. Light exhibited no effect on growth of this fungus, but aeration (shaken cultures) had. The final pH value of post-culture media depended upon the culture conditions, thus being not a stable physiological feature. The fungal biomass obtained in our studies could serve not only for artificial mycorrhization, but also for physiological, biochemical, etc. studies.
Key words: ectomycorrhizal fungi, biomass production, Cantharellus cibarius