Mushrooms

Cultivation, Nutritional Value, Medicinal Effect, and Environmental Impact
2. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-0-8493-1043-0
Verlag: CRC Press

Buch, Englisch, 478 Seiten, Format (B × H): 183 mm x 260 mm, Gewicht: 1086 g

Since the publication of the first edition, important developments have emerged in modern mushroom biology and world mushroom production and products. The relationship of mushrooms with human welfare and the environment, medicinal properties of mushrooms, and the global marketing value of mushrooms and their products have all garnered great attention, identifying the need for an updated, authoritative reference.

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 previous edition, this thoroughly revised edition 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. There are also 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.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Professional, and Professional Reference

Autoren/Hrsg.

Miles, Philip G.

Chang, Shu-Ting

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Ackerbaukunde, Pflanzenbau Nutzpflanzen: Biologie, Genetik, Pflanzenzüchtung
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Botanik Mykologie, Pilze

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Overview. The Nutritional Attributes of Edible Mushrooms. Medicinal Values. Overview of the Biology of the Fungi. Substrate and Mycelial Growth. Sexuality and the Genetics of Basidiomycetes. Mushroom Formation: Effects of Environmental, Nutritional, and Chemical Factors. Mushroom Formation: Effect of Genetic Factors; Breeding. Mushroom Formation: Effects of Pests and Diseases in Mushroom Cultivation. Culture Preservation. World Production of Edible Mushrooms. Agaricus - the Leader in Production and Technology. Lentinula - A Mushrooming Mushroom. Volvariella - A High Temperature Cultivated Mushroom. Flammulina and Pholiota - Low Temperature Cultivated Mushrooms. Pleurotus- a Mushroom of Broad Adaptability. Tremella - Increased Production by a Mixed Culture Technique. Dictyophora- Formerly for the Few. Ganoderma Lucidum - A Leader of Medicinal Mushrooms. Agaricua blazei and Grifola frondosa - Two Important Medicinal Mushrooms. Other Cultivated Mushrooms - Their Number Grows. Technology and Mushrooms.

Über Autor(innen)

Philip G. Miles (The State Univeristy of New York, Buffalo, USA) (Author), Shu-Ting Chang (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin) (Author)