Process for the Production and Utilization of Chlamydospore Rich Slurry Inoculum

The process for the production of a chlamydospore rich slurry inoculum begins with a substrate colonized with a desired Basidiomycete fungus capable of producing chlamydospores during vegetative growth. The colonized substrate is treated to increase the chlamydospore production and content in said spawn and thereafter combined with water at rate of at least 1:6 spawn:water to obtain a slurry inoculum. The inoculum may then be agitated to populate a water fraction with chlamydospores or macerated to homogenously distribute the chlamydospores. Soaking of the agitated/macerated inoculum for a time sufficient to further stimulate production of chlamydospores via water shock and obtain a chlamydospore rich slurry