Exotic mushrooms have been used in ancient Chinese medicine due to their immunomodulatory properties for the treatment and/or prevention of chronic diseases. However, only limited data exist on the health benefits of white button mushrooms (WBM), the most common in the American diet. In the current study, we investigated the effects of WBM and shiitake mushrooms (SM) on collagen-induced arthrit...

Mushrooms, a special group of macrofungi, are not plants and thus do not use photosynthesis for nutrient acquisition. Mushrooms are fleshy, have the spore-bearing fruiting body of fungi, and typically grow above ground on soil, or other food sources. Most mushrooms are Basidiomycota or Agaricomycetes. The fruiting body of mushrooms is an important food and is used in many cuisines worldwide. Ad...

Research for new improved varieties, with high increase in yields and quality with disease resistance is required today to make mushroom production highly productive.Increasing the yield and quality of crops as well as resistance to diseases are the primary goals for mushroom breeders and mushroom research. Breeders now use DNA molecular markers to identify and select specific genes to locate s...

Vitamin D(2) (ergocalciferol) and sterols were analyzed in mushrooms sampled nationwide in the United States to update the USDA Nutrient Database for Standard Reference. Vitamin D(2) was assayed using HPLC with [(3)H]-vitamin D(3) internal standard and sterols by GC-FID mass spectrometric (MS) confirmation. Vitamin D(2) was low (0.1-0.3 μg/100 g) in Agaricus bisporus (white button, crimini, por...

We have recently developed a method for the analysis of toxins in single specimens of the mush­ room Amanita phalloides (Fr.) Seer.1. Separation of the different toxins was achieved by column chro­ matography, on Sephadex LH20 in water, of a methanolic extract of fresh or dried mushrooms, followed by further purification on thinlayers of silica gel, spectrophotometric evaluation, and, final­ ly...

Straw mushrooms were grown on lead contaminated rice straw and stubble. Study materials were dried, acid digested, and analyzed for lead using flame atomic absorption spectrophotometry. The results showed the highest lead concentration in substrate was 445.350 mg kg⁻¹ in Treatment 3 (T3) and the lowest was BD (below detection) in Treatment 1 (T1). The maximum lead content in straw mushrooms was...

Mushrooms have been used by humans for millennia. The commonly cultivated mushrooms include Agaricus, Lentinus, Flammulina, Pleurotusand Volvariella. In India, Button mushroom (Agaricusbisporus)is the most followed Pleurotus(Shah et al., 2013). Mushrooms are mainly subjected to bacterial, fungal and viral diseases. production of fruiting bod...

OBJECTIVE This study aimed to investigate the association between mushroom consumption and risk of epithelial ovarian cancer in southern Chinese women. METHODS A hospital-based case-control study was undertaken in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, from 2006 to 2008. Participants were 500 incident patients with epithelial ovarian cancer and 500 controls, with a mean (SD) age of 59 (6) years. Info...

This study aims to determine the effect of addition mealworm frass and molasses on proximate value white oyster mushrooms. type research was an experiment using a completely randomized design (CRD) consisting four treatments with three replications each. Test parameters include water content, ash crude protein, fat fiber. Proximate data fiber were analyzed analysis variance (ANOVA) Tukey's foll...

Mushrooms have long been used for medicinal and food purposes for over a thousand years, but a complete elucidation of the health-promoting properties of mushrooms through regulating gut microbiota has not yet been fully exploited. Mushrooms comprise a vast, and yet largely untapped, source of powerful new pharmaceutical substances. Mushrooms have been used in health care for treating simple an...