RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Fungi anaesthesia
JF bioRxiv
FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
SP 2021.06.15.448606
DO 10.1101/2021.06.15.448606
A1 Andrew Adamatzky
A1 Antoni Gandia
YR 2021
UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2021/06/16/2021.06.15.448606.abstract
AB Electrical activity of fungus Pleurotus ostreatus is characterised by slow (hours) irregular waves of baseline potential drift and fast (minutes) action potential likes spikes of the electrical potential. An exposure of the mycelium colonised substrate to a chloroform vapour lead to several fold decrease of the baseline potential waves and increase of their duration. The chloroform vapour also causes either complete cessation of spiking activity or substantial reduction of the spiking frequency. Removal of the chloroform vapour from the growth containers leads to a gradual restoration of the mycelium electrical activity.Competing Interest StatementThe authors have declared no competing interest.