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            August 17th, 2011; By: Marie Kohoutová; Section: Interviews & Portraits

            Museums and art galleries usually display outstanding works of art. In the case of the Cul
            of Fungi (CCF) of the Department of Botany of the Charles University Faculty of Science, t
            exhibits on display are mushrooms. And it is not totally off the point to compare mushroom

            art.
            “When you study microscopic fungi for a long time, you find out that these mushrooms aboun
            unbelievable structures that cannot be found anywhere else in nature and which, in the pos

            border on art,” says the head of the mycology working group and CCF staffer Mgr. Ondřej Ko
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            The Culture Collection of Fungi is a teaching facility for faculty students and it also co
            It is usually people from other universities who turn to us when they need to send or dete
            mycotoxins and how dangerous it is. And that’s about all.                                 
                                                                                                      
            What is the possible use of fungi in medicine, pharmacy and industry?                     
            Fungi have a large biotechnological potential based primarily on fungal metabolites which 
            that can adapt to humans as their substrate. They mainly cause only topical mycoses but so
                                                                                                      
            diseases, etc.                                                                            
            Yet mushrooms have an ever growing beneficial potential, be it as food or food supplements
            are applied in different branches of industry; they are used not only in the food industry
                                                                                                      
                         People are usually more interested in the larger mushrooms

            What are mushrooms in fact? Feared and unwanted visitors or welcome helpers, for example i

            Either. Our collection consists of saprophytic fungi which grow on dead organic matter. Th
            occasional human parasites. We have a large collection of fungi of the Aspergillus genus w
            come from the clinical material collected from different patients. They were mostly immuno

            individuals (such as leukaemia patients), or individuals whose system is very weakened, fo
            result of chemotherapy.
            From what you indicated, it seems that mushrooms get the better of humans…

            You could say so because we definitely don’t rule them, we study or use them at best but w
            gets tough, mushrooms can give us a hard time. For example once you get dry rot in your co
            nothing you can do about it. If you have high humidity in your flat, you will have difficu

            rid of fungal colonies on your walls. Another critical spot are dirty air conditioning sys
            rooms with poor ventilation and large circulation of people. Fungal colonies can be hiding
            volatile substances into the environment, resulting is a long term exposure of humans to a

            which weakens them.
            It is mushrooms that affect us not the other way round! So we can say that if they choose 
            control us quite efficiently, they can even get us into a pickle. And if we don’t know the

            nothing we can do about it.
            Are you yourself afraid of mushrooms?
            No, I’m not afraid but I’m more cautious. If I find a colony in jam jar, I know it’s no fu

            a lot of uncertainty whether the colony produces toxins or not. Knowing what toxins can do
            out the whole jar. But if I still hesitated about throwing it out, I would isolate the fun
            and find out in literature whether it is a potential mycotoxin producer. However such cond

            arise under which a fungus which normally does not produce toxins will do so.
            Thank you for your time.