Mycotechnology

Mycotechnology—biotechnologies using fungi—have a real potential to stimulate the global development of the bioeconomy in many industrial fields, such as: agricultural biologicals (biostimulants, biopesticides, etc.); mycomaterials for packaging, construction or textiles; production of enzymes for industrials and secondary metabolites for the pharmaceutical sector; bioremediation (mycoremediation) of contaminated soils, sediments, water and air; products for the agri-food industry and the bioenergy sector.

Areas of application

• Isolation, purification, selection and preservation of fungal strains
• Fungal biomass production (in vitro, greenhouse, controlled environment, solid substrate fermentation, etc.)
• Development of fungal applications in industrial processes (mycoremediation, mycocomposite, solid substrate fermentation, etc.)
• Inception of the Regroupement pour l’innovation fongique (RIF)

General expertise

• Controlled-environment agriculture
• Bioremediation (mycoremediation)
• Chemistry and analytical biochemistry
• Microscopy
• In vitro cultures
• Microbiology
• Plant and fungal biology
• Biotransformation
• Fungal strain production
• Solid substrate fermentation