Dear fellow Researchers,

I have a question - can anybody explain, show literature sources or in any other way guide our team in the complex topic of mechanisms of uptake of organic contaminants esp PFAS in mushrooms? In our recent, not published yet, research we have found that accumulation of PFAS in mushrooms (A. bisporus and A. subrufescens) was low and strongly chain length dependent. Namely, short chain PFAS were accumulated easier than long chained. However, despite our best trials we failed to find enough literature to explain the mechanisms. Surely this is related to bioavailability, and for sure also to the easiness to be transferred within the mushroom body.

Sincerly,

Agnieszka Jasinska