DESCRIPTION:
Mushrooms: Cultivation, Nutritional Value, Medicinal Effect, and Environmental Impact, Second Edition presents the latest cultivation and biotechnological advances that contribute to the modernization of mushroom farming and the mushroom industry. It describes the individual steps of the complex mushroom cultivation process, along with comprehensive coverage of mushroom breeding, efficient cultivation practices, nutritional value, medicinal utility, and environmental impact. Maintaining the format, organization, and focus of the first edition, this thorough revision includes the most recent research findings and many new references.
It features new chapters on medicinal mushrooms and the effects of pests and diseases on mushroom cultivation, updated chapters on specific edible mushrooms, and an expanded chapter on technology and mushrooms. Rather than providing an encyclopedic review, this book emphasizes worldwide trends and developments in mushroom biology from an international perspective. It takes an interdisciplinary approach that will appeal to industrial and medical mycologists, mushroom growers, botanists, plant pathologists, and professionals and scientists in related fields.
This book illustrates that mushroom cultivation has and will continue to have a positive global impact on long-term food nutrition, health care, environmental conservation and regeneration, and economic and social change.
CONTENTS:
Ch. 1 Overview
Ch. 2 The nutritional attributes of edible mushrooms
Ch. 3 Medicinal value
Ch. 4 Overview of the biology of fungi
Ch. 5 Substrate and mycelial growth
Ch. 6 Sexuality and the genetics of Basidiomycetes
Ch. 7 Mushroom formation: effects of environmental, nutritional, and chemical factors
Ch. 8 Mushroom formation: effects of genetic factors : breeding
Ch. 9 Mushroom formation: effect of pests and diseases in mushroom cultivation
Ch. 10 Culture preservation
Ch. 11 World production of edible mushrooms
Ch. 12 Agaricus - the leader in production and technology
Ch. 13 Lentinula - a mushrooming mushroom
Ch. 14 Volvariella - a high-temperature cultivated mushroom
Ch. 15 Flammulina and Pholiota - low-temperature cultivated mushrooms
Ch. 16 Pleurotus - a mushroom of broad adaptability
Ch. 17 Tremella - increased production by a mixed culture technique
Ch. 18 Dictyophora - formerly for the few
Ch. 19 Ganoderma lucidum - a leader of medicinal mushrooms
Ch. 20 Agaricus blazei and Grifola frondosa - two important medicinal mushrooms
Ch. 21 Other cultivated mushrooms - their number grows
Ch. 22 Technology and mushrooms
