mycoremediator

M3Y4C3O1R1E1M3E1D2I1A1T1O1R1

noun

Any fungus used for mycoremediation.

Scrabble 24

Meanings

nounmycoremediator (plural mycoremediators)

plural mycoremediators

  1. Any fungus used for mycoremediation.

    You have to think a little differently to grow mycoremediators compared to raising edible mushrooms for the dinner plate.

    2022, Anna Hess, Weekend Homesteader: Spring
    3 more examples

    Till date fungi belonging to some major genera viz., Acremonium, Agrocybe, Alternaria, Aspergillus, Bjerkandera, Boletus, Candida, Cephalosporium, Cladosporium, Cordyceps, Doratomyces, Fusarium, Ganodrma, Geotrichum, Gliocladium, Hypholoma, Lecanicillium, Lentinus, Morierella, Mucor, Paecilomyces, Penicillium, Phanerochaete, Phlebia, Phoma, Pleurotus, Polyporus, Rhizopus, Thodotolura, Saccharomyces, Streptomyces, Talaromyces, Torulopsis, Trametes, and Trichoderma have been tested and employed for mycoremediation and Phanerochaete chrysosporium has been reported as the most capable model mycoremediator. '

    2021, Gowhar Hamid Dar, Khalid Rehman Hakeem, Mohammad Aneesul Mehmood, Freshwater Pollution and Aquatic Ecosystems, page 245

    Its main current economic interest is based on its use as a biocontrol agent in agriculture and as a producer of enzymes in different industries (Jangir et al. 2017), although in recent years its relevance in other sectors has been increasing, as a promoter of plant growth and tolerance to abioltic stresses (Poveda et al. 2019a; Poveda 2020), source of genes for use in biotechnology (Poveda et al. 2019b), or mycoremediator.

    2022, N. Amaresan, A. Sankaranarayanan, Mitesh Kumar Dwivedi, Advances in Trichoderma Biology for Agricultural Applications, page 472

    Extensive studies desired for exploration of fungi as a potential mycoremediator in order to attain agricultural sustainability are discussed by Purohit et al. in Chap. 4.

    2018, Ram Prasad, Mycoremediation and Environmental Sustainability: Volume 2, page vi
  2. A person or company engaged in mycoremediation.

    Q: What tips would you have for the grassroots mycoremediator?

    2013, Leila Darwish, Earth Repair, page 176
    1 more example

    The challenges faced by mycoremediators' are analogous to thse faced by brewers— without suitable conditions, yeast will struggle to remediate the sugar in a barrel of grape juics into alcohol— except that the wine barrel is a contaminated ecosystem and we're inside it.

    2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 206

Origin

By surface analysis, myco- + remediator, or, by surface analysis, mycoremediate + -or.

Full word history & related roots →
Cite this entry
APA

mycoremediator. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mycoremediator

MLA

“mycoremediator.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mycoremediator. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “mycoremediator,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mycoremediator.

Source: mycoremediator on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.