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Fungi exhibit action-potential like spiking activity. Up to date most electrical activity of oyster fungi has been characterised in sufficient detail. It remains unclear if there are any patterns of electrical activity specific only for a certain set of species or if all fungi share the same ‘language’ of electrical signalling. We use pairs of differential electrodes to record extracellular electrical activity of the antler-like sporocarps of the polypore fungus Ganoderma resinaceum. The patterns of the electrical activity are analysed in terms of frequency of spiking and parameters of the spikes. The indicators of the propagation of electrical activity are also highlighted.
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In 1995 Olsson and Hansson demonstrated spontaneous action potential like activity in a hypha of Pleurotus ostreatus and Armillaria bulbosa (synonymous with A. gallica and A. lutea) via intra-cellular recording with a reference electrode in an agar substrate [27]. Our present results concern extracellular recordings, therefore we will not compare thee with Olsson and Hansson results.
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Adamatzky, A., Gandia, A. (2023). On Electrical Spiking of Ganoderma Resinaceum. In: Adamatzky, A. (eds) Fungal Machines. Emergence, Complexity and Computation, vol 47. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38336-6_2
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