An inoculum technique for the production of fungal pellets

Abstract

A simple standard inoculation procedure has been developed to obtain growth of fungi in the form of pellets. This technique made use of filamentous mycelium from a preculture as an inoculum, yielding many small pellets with a fairly homogeneous size distribution. At an early stage of growth the presence of a polymer (Carbopol-934) proved to be very important for the way spores germinate and lowered the agglomeration tendency. At a later stage of growth the influence of shearing forces becomes more predominant. © 1980 Springer-Verlag.