MyCo
MyCo has created Mycoponics – hydroponics for mushrooms. This new technology is poised to revolutionize the $50B+ global mushroom market for edibles, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, vegan leather, and consumer packaging.
Cosmetics & Pharmaceuticals
Mycoponics can greatly increase the efficacy of mushrooms used for cosmetics and pharmaceuticals by increasing consistency in the growing process and the ability to customize nutrient delivery.
Growing in 3D
MyCo’s proprietary substrate technology allows us to grow vegan leather in 3D, in any shape the customer desires. We are currently growing custom leather gloves, perfectly fit to the customers hand. Imagine what else we can grow!
Edibles
MyCo’s proprietary, patent-pending technology will revolutionize the way mushrooms are produced in controlled environment agriculture applications, increasing yeild and decreasing growing time to maximize profitability.
Consumer Packaging
Bio-degradable consumer packaging such as to-go containers and product packaging can now be grown to suit out of 100% biodegradable mushrooms that are good for the soil and produce no bi-products as they break down.
Mycoponics
- “Hydroponics for mushrooms” represents a breakthrough innovation in fungal cultivation that allows precision nutrient delivery and complete environmental control for consistent results and increased yield.
- Eliminates the need for substrates and enables the use of new and variable nutrient sources with minimal environmental impact.
- Represents emerging opportunities to develop circular bioproduction by transforming waste organic materials into food and high-value products.
- The ability to grow vegan leather to customizable 3D shapes provides a completely new way to create consumer products and clothing.
- MyCo will integrate Mycoponics™ into existing industrial growing systems as the solution to finally unlock efficient mushroom farming at any scale – from household systems to global commercial vertical farms.
- By solving key obstacles, Mycoponics™ empowers producers to sustainably meet booming nutritional demands and support transitions toward plant-based food and materials
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The Mycoponics™ technology is still in the lab at Purdue University and has recently been exclusively licensed by indoor agriculture leader, Eden Grow Systems as a valuable technology to supplement the company’s existing ability to grow a wide variety of plants in a computer-controlled advanced hydroponic system.
Meet Dr. Marshall Porterfield, PhD
The creator of Mycoponics, Dr. D. Marshall Porterfield is now back at Purdue University as a Professor of Agricultural & Biological Engineering, after serving as Division Director for Space Life and Physical Sciences (SLPS) at NASA headquarters in Washington DC. While at NASA oversaw the Human Research, Physical Sciences, and Space Biology Programs and founded NASA GeneLab, an innovative open science approach merging genomics and computational AI.
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