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Culinary and Medicinal Mushrooms: Insight into Growing Technologies

Acta Mycologica, 2021
Humans have used mushrooms from the beginning of their history. However, during the last few decades, the market demand for these fruiting bodies has increased significantly owing to the spread in the capabilities of culinary and pharmacological exploitation. Natural mushroom resources have become insufficient to meet the support needs.
Piotr Zięba, Agnieszka Sękara, Katarzyna Sułkowska-Ziaja, Bożena Muszyńska   +3 more
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The Vitamin Profile of Edible and Medicinal Mushrooms: Bioactive Potential, Preventive Health Significance, and Applied Perspectives

Applied Sciences
Edible and medicinal mushrooms are widely studied for their bioactive compounds, yet their role as sources of essential vitamins remains inadequately defined and often overestimated.
Katarzyna Sułkowska-Ziaja, Katarzyna Kała, Mónika Fekete, Virág Zábó, Michał Kolisz, Jan Lazur, Bożena Muszyńska   +6 more
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Comparative Cytotoxicity Evaluation of Heat-Assisted vs Cold Water Extractions of Six Medicinal Fungi against Breast and Lung Cancer Cells

Food Technology and Biotechnology
Research background. Preparation of medicinal fungi for experimental purposes usually involves the extraction and determination of the quality and quantity of bioactive compounds prior to the biological experiment.
Min-Jia Ng, Neng-Yao Goh, Chon-Seng Tan, Muhammad Fazril Mohamad Razif, Hui-Yeng Yeannie Yap, Boon-Hong Kong, Shin-Yee Fung   +6 more
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Patent review: existing, new, and potential pharmacological agents from mushrooms [PDF]

Exploration of Medicine
Mushrooms are non-photosynthetic organisms produced as distinctive spore bearing fruiting bodies of filamentous macro-fungi. More than 14,000 mushroom species have been recognized, of which around 2,200 are edible. Scientists have extensively studied the
Paromita Banerjee, Anita Mandhare, Saurabh Waghmare   +2 more
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Enhancement of ergothioneine production by discovering and regulating its metabolic pathway in Cordyceps militaris

Microbial Cell Factories, 2022
Background Cordyceps militaris is a traditional medicinal fungus contains a variety of functional ingredients and has been developed as an important mushroom food recently. Ergothioneine, one of the antioxidative compounds in C. militaris, is benefits on
Bai-Xiong Chen, Ling-Na Xue, Tao Wei, Zhi-Wei Ye, Xue-Hai Li, Li-Qiong Guo, Jun-Fang Lin   +6 more
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Edible and Medicinal Mushrooms

, 2017
Comprehensive and timely, Edible and Medicinal Mushrooms: Technology and Applications provides the most up to date information on the various edible mushrooms on the market. Compiling knowledge on their production, application and nutritional effects, chapters are dedicated to the cultivation of major species such as Agaricus bisporus, Pleurotus ...
Zied, Diego Cunha, Pardo-Giménez, Arturo   +1 more
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The Glucans Mushrooms: Molecules of Significant Biological and Medicinal Value

Polysaccharides
Mushroom polysaccharides, key components of fungal cell walls, exhibit various biological properties and hold significant medicinal and industrial value.
Giancarlo Angeles Flores, Gaia Cusumano, Roberto Venanzoni, Paola Angelini   +3 more
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Transcriptome sequencing reveals iron acquisition–related genes and iron acquisition systems in Auricularia cornea

BMC Genomics
Auricularia cornea exhibits significant potential for iron-enrichment. However, the mechanisms behind iron absorption and accumulation remain poorly understood.
Qiushi Zhu, Ming Fang, Fangjie Yao, Lixin Lu, Xiaoxu Ma, Yuling Cui, Xu Sun, Zhen Wang   +7 more
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Multiplex gene precise editing and large DNA fragment deletion by the CRISPR‐Cas9‐TRAMA system in edible mushroom Cordyceps militaris

Microbial Biotechnology, 2022
The medicinal mushroom Cordyceps militaris contains abundant valuable bioactive ingredients that have attracted a great deal of attention in the pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries. However, the development of this valuable mushroom faces the obstacle
Bai‐Xiong Chen, Ling‐Na Xue, Tao Wei, Na Wang, Jing‐Ru Zhong, Zhi‐Wei Ye, Li‐Qiong Guo, Jun‐Fang Lin   +7 more
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The potential of bioinoculants in enhancing the mushroom productivity [PDF]

BIO Web of Conferences
Nowadays, environmentally friendly and sustainable food production is gaining importance day by day. The most important factor in achieving the goal of sustainable food production is limiting the use of chemicals that pose risks to human and ...
Cetin Mehmet, Atila Funda
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