Mycelium Running

Mycelium Running
Mycelium Running  
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Author(s) Paul Stamets
Country United States
Language English
Subject(s) Mycoremediation
Publisher Ten Speed Press
Publication date 2005
Pages 339
ISBN 9781580085793

Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save The World is a 2005 book by Paul Stamets. The book explores the use and applications of fungi in bioremediation (mycoremediation). Stamets details methods of termite and ant control using nontoxic mushroom mycelia and elaborates on fungi that may be able to neutralize anthrax, nerve gas and smallpox.[1][2]

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