Armillaria mellea

Efforts by various investigators to demonstrate a luciferin-luciferase reaction with luminous fungi were uniformly unsuccessful until Airth and McElroy (1959) obtained a positive result. Airth s group studied further details of the luciferin-luciferase reaction using the luciferin preparation obtained from Armillaria mellea and the luciferase preparation obtained from a species identified by them... 

Table 9.2 Contents of Luciferin, the Precursor of Luciferin, and SOD, in 1 g of Fruiting Body or Mycelium of Panellus stipticus, Armillaria mellea, Pleurotus japonicus, Omphalotus olearius, Mycena lux-coeli, and Mycena citncolor (data taken from Shimomura, 1992)...

Fig. 9.2 Changes in the luminescence intensity, the contents of luciferin and SOD, and medium pH during the mycelial growth of five kinds of bioluminescent fungi Panellus stipticus, Armillaria mellea, Mycena citricolor, Pleurotus japonicus, and Omphelotus olearius. The ordinate readings of the curves marked 1/3 should be multiplied by 3. For the SOD activity, see Table 9.2, footnote e. From Shimomura, 1992, with permission from Oxford University Press.

Ebrahimzadeh, M. H., and Haddadchie, G. R. (1993). Intrinsic fluorescent compounds in Armillaria mellea hyphae and rhizomorph./. Set. Islamic Repub. Iran 4 241-246. 

Donnelly DMX, Coveney DJ, Fukuda N, Polonsky J (1986) New Sesquiterpene Aryl Esters from Armillaria mellea. J Nat Prod 49 111... 

Amone A, Cardillo R, Di Modugno V, Nasini G (1988) Secondary Mould Metabolites. XXII. Isolation and Structure Elucidation of Melledonals D and E and Melleolides E-H, Novel Sesquiterpenoid Aryl Esters from Clitocybe elegans and Armillaria mellea. Gazz Chim Ital 118 517... 

Improvement of fibre diffraction by chemical means was exampled by the results obtained with hydrolytic and other extractions of fungal tissue, in particular with reference to the (1-3)-/ -D-glucan component in the fibrous mycelial ropes (rhizomorphs) of Armillaria mellea. The rhizomorphs in the native state produce only one, oriented but diffuse and weak spacing attributable to (1-3)--D-glucan. After the adequate chemical extractions they yielded a complete fibre... 

On September 9, 1966, at about 9 a.m., a 56-year-old retired mechanical engineer of Harvard, Massachusetts, picked a bunch of mushrooms clustered by the side of the road in front of his house. Under the mistaken impression that they were honey mushrooms (Armillaria mellea an edible species) he tasted the fresh flesh andfound them to be slightly bitter However, he took them home, where his wife washed them and fiied them in butter. He ate... 

Sesquiterpene aryl esters from Armillaria mellea, D.M.R. Donnelly, R.M. Hutchinson, D. Coveney and M. Yonemitsu, Phytochemistry, 1990, 29, 2569. 

WG Campbell. The Chemistry of wood. III. The effect on wood substance of Ganoderma applanatum (Pers.) Pat., Pomes fomentarius (Linn.) Fr., Polyporus adustus (Willd.) Fr., Pleurotus ostreatus (Jacq.) Fr., Armillaria mellea (Vahl.) Fr., Trametes pini (Brot.) Fr., and Polystictus abietinus (Dicks.) Fr. Biochem J. 26 1829-1838, 1932. 

Fig. 2. The normalized values of luminescence of Armillaria mellea after 30 min action of toxicants.

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