The differences between hybridization and phenotypical selection of isolates when breeding mushrooms

[williamworthington]

You're videos are extremely helpful and have way more information than most. Thanks for blessing us with your knowledge!

[redapproves]

Just binge watched all your videos. I really appreciate your scientific and methodical approach to mushroom cultivation. And I am so grateful for someone like you investing tremendous amount of effort and time to share these valuable knowledge.

What I thought would've been a fun summer project growing shiitake have turned into a daily obsession of mine. There are so much to learn and so much yet to be discovered! Thanks Gary!

[gwaters]

Thank you Gary. You don't know me but you have taught me loads already through your videos 👍 I am new to Mycology and your channel is a wealth of knowledge. Great work,

Mush love from the UK

[KellenChase]

Fun! Thanks for sharing. I just saw someone who’d isolated a really funky looking phenotype and really had no idea what that meant. I appreciate your videos and I’ve been looking at mychorhizal stuff for my 2020 apocalypse garden... actually what led me to fungi in the first place. Really looking forward to what you’re bringing to fungi and gardening

[michaelwelsh]

Great explanation! It’s been such a cool journey integrating my lessons from mycology and incorporating them into academia and the study of insect pathogen fungi.

[TheSporceror]

I'm one of your biggest fans man. Thank you so much!

[joeg]

Thank you so much for your hard work on breeding new varieties

[mosiahparkman]

Very interesting information. Thanks for posting Gary!

[pamelawillis]

Excellent. There is a book in your future, Gary.

[Marlene]

You are not a farmer, actually you are a scientific ! Great information, thanks for sharing ;)

[vitaly]

that's really valuable information thanks a lot

[gustavosiles]

how can i get a better genetic out of a lios mane spore syringe using agar? What caracteristics of the micelium should I pick or look for ? Thanks

[gregmcb]

You should hydride a azurescens with something large like Ecuador strain. Or just normal cubes but either way it would be a verry nice thing. I know their food sources are different but that’s what would make this so interesting!

[vytautas.take]

Thank you, your videos are amazing. Im just getting confused here a little. You say that to get a consistent result you hold onto the 1st gen that you select. What is 1st gen? Any gen that came from spores? I literally think about the very 1st mushroom patch ever, lol, that's not helpful, haha. Jokes aside, I thought that no mater the selection or breed of the previous gen, spores will always have a clean slate and anything is possible because it has diversity that then you select from? Also, you say that strains loose vigour through cloning. But then how do I hold on to the same gen? Cloning is when you grow mycelium from mushroom tissue, but also when you share grain spawn and liquid cultures, right? Or the latter grain/lc methods are what you mean by holding on to a strain? Sorry for stupid tangled questions. I feel I have all the pieces, just need to place it right..

[TheGoodFunGuy]

We don’t deserve you or the university level education you provide us with. Thank you! Would you have any interest in working on a collab project with a couple others in the mushroom community?

[MycoPharm-Mycology]

Do you have a video that explains how to isolate a phenotype from a culture without sophisticated laboratory testing and equipment? What do you think is the best way for the home grower with only a very basic myco-lab (e.g., microscope, LFH)
can achieve the best genotype of the species when starting from a spore? Lot of videos out that show you how to make a selected rhizomorphic culture but I haven’t seen any explain why we should do that and what it means in cultivation.

[dizidnte]

excelent video
De lujo, que buen video 💯🦅

[valerydan]

I am wondering is it possible to hybridize reishi with turkey tail mushrooms?

[Algumnomequalquer]

Gary, how to do clone a culture right without senescence ? How people keep a strain for so long without problems? There's no video about that. Mushlove

[AntiTrollable]

Can you please do a video on senescence of mycelium and whether agar to agar, for example, is cloning or just an "extension of growth" of the isolated genetics.
It seems illogical to me that there would be a small limit to how many times mycelium can be transferred as, to my understanding, it is not the same as cloning. What I have read about it it seems the only reason it enters senescence is due to toxic DNA and mitochondrial breakdown and is a genetic flaw within the isolation itself and not the amount of tranfers.
I don't know much about biology but this is just presumptuous logic. Would love your thoughts on this.
Cheers.