Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : October 20, 2018 - October 21, 2018
Mushrooms are the only organisms capable of completely degrading wood components. It is thought that elucidating the ecology of mushrooms will lead to the development of new applications of wood biomass. However, the ecology of mushrooms is often unclear and the formation mechanism of fruiting bodies has not been elucidated. The fruit body is composed of 80% to 90% of moisture, but it does not have a water route like a conduit held by a plant. Therefore, if it becomes possible to visualize from where to how a large amount of moisture is moving inside the fruit body, it is thought that it will lead to the elucidation of the fruiting body formation mechanism of mushrooms. So we aim to visualize the moisture path inside fruiting body of mushroom using fluorescence.
