Mushrooms–The Incredible Factory for Enzymes and Metabolites Productions

Copyright: © 2013 Camassola M. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Mushrooms are fungi belonging to the higher phyla Ascomycota and Basidiomycota. In fact the name mushroom refers to a fruiting body, formed by several hyphae that grow upwards and produces spores (basidiospores). These spores are invisible to the naked eye and spread with the wind, with water or even attached to the body of animals. The fruiting fungus is the structure of sexual reproduction and has different shapes and colors.