The present invention relates to a new strain and its molecular marker primers and molecular marker method, in particular to a new strain of Flammulina fennae and its molecular marker primers and molecular marker method. The new strain was Flammulina fennae HMGIM-A151357. The deposit number was CCTCC NO: M 2019478. Compared with Flammulina velutipes on market, the Flammulina fennae of the present invention has a richer calcium content, a higher tolerant temperature, which was conducive to energy saving, and the mushroom cover was not easy to open the umbrella. The commercial properties were excellent, with the low content of cellulose. It was not easy to stuff teeth when eating, and the taste was better.

Microbial starter cultures. More specifically, a method for preparing a microbial culture such as a lactic acid bacteria (LAB) starter culture wherein at least one microbial strain such as a lactic acid bacteria and at least one inactivated yeast strain is inoculated in a culture medium.

The invention provides environmentally-friendly compositions and methods for reducing the viscosity of crude oil using microorganisms and/or biosurfactants produced by microorganisms.

Methods of producing a hybrid organism. The methods include providing a first organism, providing a second organism, providing a fusing medium, combining the first organism and the second organism in or on the fusing medium to define a fusion environment, and initiating somatic fusion between the first organism and the second organism in the fusion environment to produce the hybrid organism. The first organism is either a plant organism or a fungus organism. The second organism is either a plant organism or a fungus organism. In some examples, the first organism is Tuber melanosporum . In certain examples, the second organism is either Panaeolus cambodginiensis or Panaeolus cyanescens . In some examples, the methods include incubating the hybrid organism, regenerating cell walls of the hybrid organism, and/or replicating the hybrid organism.

The present invention provides a method for making a consortium of fungi resistant to traces of carbamates contained in thiodicarb and to traces of synthetic pyrethroids contained in bifenthrin. During the course of this research, carried out over more than five years, the strains were subjected to a change in physical medium, adapting same to tolerate increasing concentrations of thiodicarb and bifenthrin. This compound enriches and increases the concentration of beneficial microorganisms, generating high-quality liquid biological fertilisers suitable for use in agricultural production, in land recovery and conservation, under the parameters established in sustainable organic farming, which seeks to conserve, recover and use nature or the environment without generating the least negative impact.

Planting corn in one or more consecutive growing seasons in the same fields causes a yield reduction (“corn-on-corn yield penalty”). We developed methods and inoculants comprising Penicillium bilaii, to reduce corn-on-corn yield penalty. The disclosure covers the inoculants and methods for reducing corn-on-corn yield penalty.

Methods of production of edible filamentous fungal biomat formulations are provided as standalone protein sources and/or protein ingredients in foodstuffs as well as a one-time use or repeated use self-contained biofilm-biomat reactor comprising a container with at least one compartment and placed within the compartment(s), a feedstock, a fungal inoculum, a gas-permeable membrane, and optionally a liquid nutrient medium.

Provided herein are genetically modified host cells, compositions, and methods for improved production of artemisinic acid. The host cells are genetically modified to contain a heterologous nucleic acid that expresses novel and optimized variants of amorpha-4,11-diene 12-monooxygenase. Also provided herein are methods for screening for variants of cytochrome p450 enzymes that have increased enzymatic activity relative to a parental control enzyme.

The present invention provides a method for profiling plant endophyte microbiomes, wherein the method provides for identification of endophyte strains that are phylogenetically related to a desired endophyte strain. More particularly, the present invention relates to method for identifying, characterising and/or comparing endophyte strains and to novel endophyte strains selected and/or isolated by the method. The present invention also relates to methods for transferring endophyte strains between plants.

The present disclosure relates to a Beauveria bassiana KNU-101 strain. The Beauveria bassiana KNU-101 strain is entomopathogenic, exhibits an excellent insecticidal effect on controlling thrips, which are soil pests that harm crops, and also has excellent sporulation ability. Thus, the Beauveria bassiana KNU-101 strain may be effectively used as an environmentally friendly means for controlling pests.