CRC Press
366 pages | 30 Color Illus. | 47 B/W Illus.
Advances in Macrofungi: Diversity, Ecology and Biotechnology discusses the diversity and ecology of edible, toxic, medicinal and mycorrhizal macrofungi; the impact of ectomycorrhizal fungi in terrestrial ecosystems, ectomycorrhizal complex in Boreal forests and commercial application of Pseudotsuga in silviculture; the nutritional evaluation and cultivation of edible wild mushrooms; the diversity of novel metabolites of macrofungi useful in food, pharmaceutical and cosmeceutical industries; mushrooms as tool for eco-friendly synthesis of nanoparticles and proteomics of edible and medicinal mushrooms. In addition, it covers experimental designs, methodological approaches, biogeochemical cycles, conceptual/hypothetical models and life history strategies, linking mycorrhizal diversity to plant performance, chemotaxonomy, role of mycorrhizae in forestry and macrofungi in nanotechnology. It provides a valuable resource to graduate, post-graduate and researchers (in botany, microbiology, ecology, biotechnology, forestry, life sciences and environmental sciences) to understand the diversity, ecology, therapeutic value, mutualistic associations and biotechnological potential of macrofungi.
Overview
David L. Hawksworth
Global Diversity of the Genus Ganoderma: Taxonomic Uncertainties and Challenges
Viktor Papp
Auriculoscypha: A Fascinating Instance of Fungus-Insect-Plant Interactions
Patinjareveettil Manimohan
Biodiversity and Ecology of Boreal Pine Woodlands Ectomycorrhizal Fungi in the Anthropocene
Luis Villarreal-Ruiz and Cecilia Neri-Luna
The Roles of Macrofungi (Basidomycotina) in Terrestrial Ecosystems
John Dighton
Nutritional Attributes of two Wild Mushrooms of Southwestern India
Sudeep D. Ghate and Kandikere R. Sridhar
Cultivation of Lentinus squarrosulus
Atri, N.S., Rajinder Singh, Mridu, Lata and Upadhyay, R.C.
Some Edible, Toxic and Medicinal Mushrooms from Temperare Forests in the North of Mexico
Fortunato Garza Ocañas, Miroslava Quiñónez Martínez, Lourdes Garza Ocañas, Artemio Carrillo Parra, Horacio Villalón Mendoza, Humberto Gonzalez Rodríguez, Ricardo Valenzuela Garza, Gonzalo Guevara Guerrero, Jesús García Jiménez and Mario García Aranda
Biotechnological Exploitation of Macrofungi for the Production of Food, Pharmaceuticals and Cosmeceuticals
Susanna M. Badalyan and Alessandra Zambonelli
Bioactive Metabolites from Basidiomycetes
Christian Agyare and Theresa Appiah Agana
Terpenoids of Russula (Basidiomycota), with Emphasis on Cucurbitane Triterpenes
Marco Clericuzio and Alfredo Vizzini
The genus Phellinus: A Rich Source of Diverse Bioactive Metabolites
Sunil K. Deshmukh, Ved Prakash and Manish Gupta
Commercial Inoculations of Pseudotsuga with an Ectomycorrhizal Fungus and its Consequences
Ian R. Hall, Phil De La Mare, Gina Bosselmann, Chris Perley and Yun Wang
Barcoding DNA: A Tool for Molecular Identification of Macrofungi
Arun Kumar Dutta and Krishnendu Acharya
Mushroom as a Greener Agent to Biosynthesize Nanoparticles
Nor Athirah Kamaliah Ahmad Tarmizi, Chia-Wei Phan, Yee-Shin Tan and Vikineswary Sabaratnam
Proteomics of Edible and Medicinal Mushrooms
Shin-Yee Fung and Fazril Razif