Need advice on a project

[Rebecca Belling]

Hi there,

Interesting question...I've never personally heard of such a thing, but that
doesn't mean it can't work!!  Is there any way you could email me the actual
protocol, or at least a link to it?  That way, I could actually see what you and
your student want to do with the peroxide, and possibly give you a better idea
of if it will work or not.

at any rate, best of luck!
Becky


misterguch wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm a high school science teacher who's got a student doing a science fair
> project involving mushrooms.  Basically, he's found somewhere on the
> internet a protocol for raising mushrooms using a dilute hydrogen peroxide
> solution to provide a sterile growing medium.  Since I don't know much about
> mushrooms, here are some questions:
>
> 1)  Is it well-known that using hydrogen peroxide can allow you to forgo
> some of the normal cleanroom growing methods?
> 2)  Is it unbelievably stupid to think something like this could work?
> 3)  If it's neither well-known to work nor unbelievably stupid to think it
> would work, do you think it might work?
>
> Any advice is appreciated.  Thanks.