Method for producing rapidly renewable chitinous material using fungal fruiting bodies and product made thereby
AssigneeEcovative Design LLC
InventorsEben Bayer, Gavin McIntyre
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Abstract
The method of growing a fungal fruiting body requires exposing a mycelium of a desired organism type to environmental conditions sufficient to induce fruiting of fungal primordium in the organism type followed by enclosing the fungal primordium within a mold of a designated shape representing a near net shape volume of a desired final product. The fungal primordium is allowed to grow and fill the mold to form a mass of fungal tissue equivalent in shape to the designated shape of the mold after which the mass of fungal tissue is removed from the mold and dried.
Claims11
Method of growing a fungal fruiting body comprising the steps of
- exposing mycelium of a desired organism type to environmental conditions sufficient to induce fruiting of fungal primordium in said organism type;
- enclosing said fungal primordium within a mold of a designated shape representing a near net shape volume of a desired final product;
- allowing said fungal primordium to grow and fill the mold to form a mass of fungal tissue equivalent in shape to said designated shape of the mold;
- removing said mass of fungal tissue from the mold;
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- drying said mass of fungal tissue.
A method of growing a fungal fruiting body comprising the steps of
- creating a substrate capable of supporting growth of a desired fungal specie;
- inoculating said substrate with said specie;
- incubating said inoculated substrate under environmental conditions optimal for the mycelia of said fungal specie to fully colonize said substrate and mature to such a point as to support fruiting body growth;
- inducing pinning of said species in said substrate suitable for inducing pinning of at least one fungal primordium in said organism type;
- enclosing said fungal primordium within a mold of a designated shape representing a net shape volume of a desired final product;
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- allowing said fungal primordium to grow and fill the mold to form a mass of fungal tissue equivalent in shape to said designated shape of the mold.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.