mycoremediate

present singular third person mycoremediates · participle present mycoremediating · participle past mycoremediated · past mycoremediated

1. To use fungi to degrade or sequester environmental contaminants.

   Due to the fungi's ability to deactivate and mycoremediate toxins, the environment is not affected negatively.

   2020, Judith Karen Fenley, Oberon Zell, Death Rights and Rites: A Practical Guide to a Meaningful Death

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   When choosing mushroom species to mycoremediate a toxic site, select species that naturally grow in that landscape.

   2011, Paul Stamets, Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World, page 112

   The findings of that work could help mycoremediate the oil sands tailings in the Fort McMurray area of northern Alberta.

   2012, Robert Rogers, The Fungal Pharmacy, page 6