Mushrooms, Microbiomes, and More with Eoin O'Connor
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
What makes for healthy mushroom crop production? Can substrate microbiomes be manipulated to improve mushroom growth and development?
Eoin O'Connor is a postdoctoral scholar at the Penn State University Hockett Lab, where he studies mycology and the microbiomes of commercial mushroom substrates.
Tune in to learn:
- The difference between metaproteomics and metagenomics, and why one is better in some ways than the other
- The relationship between phases of compost, microbiomes, and mushroom growth
- What pseudomonas is, how it interacts with VOCs, and how it impacts mushroom health
- How to "passage" material in casing layers to improve commercial mushroom production
Press play for more, and visit https://www.hockettlab.com/eoin-oconnor to learn about O'Connor's research.
Episode also available on Apple Podcast: http://apple.co/30PvU9C
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| 0:36.0 | Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Finding Genius Podcast, |
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| 0:44.0 | I guess this is Olin O'Connor. |
| 0:46.0 | He's a postdoctoral scholar at the Hockett Lab at Penn State University. |
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