Benefit of Fungi

Fungi as Decomposition Organism

Decomposition becomes an ecologically important process in nature. It can be a nuisance in everyday life. People have capitalized on fungal strengths, using them to ferment raw materials and produce food, averages, drugs, vitamins, and other useful chemicals. Other of interest are edible mushrooms which can be cultivated under tropical conditions. These include Paddy straw mushrooms (Volvariella volvacea) and oyster mushrooms (Pleurotus sajor-caju).

Various fungi are used in the production of traditional fermented foods and beverages such as kecap tempe, oncom, tape, dadih, brem and brem bali. Kecap fermentation uses a mixture of Aspergillus oryzae (Deuteromycetes) or Rhizopus ligosporus (Zygommycetes) and yeast (Ascomycetes). The fermentation of soybeans to produce tempe uses species of Rhizopus, while fermentation of peanut cake to produce oncom is carried out with species of Neurospora.

Environment Condition of Fungi To Grow

Many fungi are sensitive to environmental changes. Such temperature and Humidity, certain fungi have their suitable environment to grow. Like temperature must be over than 20 Celcius degree to 30 celcius degree but other kind of fungi good to grow at temperature below 20 celcius degree. Major modifications of the environment, such as forest clearing, can result in the extinction of fungi. Little attention has been given to fungi in discussion on conservation and there are only a few specialists in Indonesia. 

People cultivating this fungi with modification their environment in order not affected by outside climate like using plastic to cover their place to grow and make some air circulation to make keep humid or keep warm on the media of the place to grow. The media to grow should be sterilized first in order there is no other fungi grow on the media. Only fungi from the seed they planted. 

Every certain fungi have different treatment on the media, wood fungi look like just to choose suitable wood to grow and just choose wood that has no other fungi grow on them.

Wood Fungi

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