Talk:Mycofiltration

Unverified Statements

The article contains a number of unverified statements. These may be true but are presented in way that provides no confidence in their veracity or appropriateness here. I'm not even convinced that the term "mycofiltration" is appropriate. There may be no difference between mycofiltration and mycoremediation. I certainly see no evidence in either the article or the source reference. - Marshman 02:20, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

I struggled with that when writing these two articles initially as well, but from reading this (cited in the mycoremediation article), it seems that Stamets considers mycofiltration and mycoremediation two separate processes. The alternative interpretation (which I just realized now) is that mycofiltration is the name of the process by which mycelial mats break down hydrocarbon chains, and that mycoremediation is the application of mycofiltration to achieve bioremediation.

As for any unverified statements, Google turns up a number of varied links, but I didn't have the time/inclination to really run through them all (call me lazy). Hopefully I'm not running afoul of WP:V here... --howcheng [ t • c • w • e ] 07:03, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

The malaria statement still needs a proper citation all I've seen is [1]

P. umbellatus showed inhibitory activity against the protozoa Plasmodium falciparum, one of the main causative agents of malaria (Lovy et al., 1999).

Lovy A, Knowles B, Labbe R, Nolan L. Activity of edible mushrooms against the growth of human T4 leukemic cancer cells, HeLa cervical cancer cells, and Plasmodium falciparum. J Herb Spice Medic Plant. 1999 6(4):49-57.

All still true 11 years later. Of course you can use a fungal mat to catch particles, you could use a wet handkerchief too. It's time we merged the articles and assembled what (very) little evidence there is into one sorry place not two. For the record, I searched Google Scholar and found a lot of articles (not really papers most of them) which reported other people's findings as if they were sacred and which occasionally concluded that more research was needed (they were right there, at least). Many of the articles are in unreliable places, or are PhD theses which just did a literature search. In short, it's basically a horrible mess, bordering on fringe. Merging now. Chiswick Chap (talk) 15:47, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

change the redirect

I set the redirect to mycoremediation instead of Bioremediation#Mycoremediation ---Beleriandcrises (talk) 16:44, 28 September 2017 (UTC)