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Myconeos
Myconeos Is a specialist fungal biotechnology research company focused on solutions for the food industry.
Financial period: 1 Apr 2024 to 31 Mar 2025
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Myconeos breeds new strains of fungi for a wide range of applications including food, bio-remediation, bio-fermentation and production of enzymes and colours.
The company Myconeos (https://myconeos.com/) was formed as a spin-out from work arising from the BBSRC follow-on-fund awards together with a BBSRC Agri-Food Seeding Catalyst Award. The previous research led to the identification of a series of novel fungal moulds that can be used for the production of novel blue cheeses with improved flavour and colour, which were deemed very attractive in cheese taste trials. Myconeos has the remit to produce, market and further develop the moulds using the technology developed under the previous BBSRC research.
Myconeos has identified a commercial distributor, JKM Foods (http://www.jkm-foods.com/), for the novel strains who is an existing major UK supplier. Talks are ongoing with the DTI to establish international distributors. The company has established a production facility at Biocity, Nottingham and has gained HACCP food safety approval in Spring 2022. Commercial strain production and sales have now started as of March 2022. The company has also gained a major £200K Innovate UK grant from 2021-2022. The research work and start-up company were featured on the UKRI website and Youtube as a promotional example: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/yqi9XaaXC3U
1 Jul 2023 to 31 Dec 2024
_Penicillium_ fungi are used in mould-ripened dairy cheese production. Frequently used strains include _P. roqueforti_ and _P. camemberti_. These are typically commercial strains purchased from a select few dedicated strain manufacturers that service the global market or are historical strains that have been cultured by the dairy or cheesemakers themselve...
1 Jan 2022 to 31 Mar 2022
Myconeos has developed ground breaking technology to naturally breed new fungal strains. We have applied the technology to breed the first new penicillium roqueforti strains in the market for blue cheese application in forty years. These new strains have been selected through evaluation in UK style blue cheeses and consumer work in the UK. The four new UK...
1 Jul 2021 to 31 Dec 2022
Few strains of the fungus _Penicillium camemberti_ are available for commercial mould-ripened cheese production, despite the fact that there are known manufacturing/quality issues with those available. There is an unmet need for higher-quality _P. camemberti_ production strains, exhibiting improved and novel phenotypic traits for commercial cheese making ...
