The capacity of Earth to regenerate its own resources is reducing due to the exponential growth of the human population. Simultaneously, climate change may cause productivity variations and diminish the total yield of agricultural production. Revolutionary strategies are urgently needed to produce and distribute enough sustainable and nutritious food. One emerging solution is the submerged cultivation of fungal mycelia, offering the potential to increase food productivity locally using fewer resources. Making food production from mycelia efficient and economically viable requires a better understanding and control of the bioprocess parameters and their connection to the fungal metabolism. The aim of our MultiFun project is to characterize submerged mycelia cultivation as a multipurpose fungal biorefinery, with a ground up approach to have superior control and understanding of how to control inputs to maximise outputs in an economically feasible way.

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