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Role of Mushroom Fungi in Decolourization of Industrial Dyes and Degradation of Agrochemicals
Mushroom fungi are well known to possess the ability for degradation of diverse agricultural pollutants. These fungi can degrade extremely diverse range of very persistent toxic environmental pollutants and in...
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Novel Prospective of Wild Mushroom Polysaccharides as Potential Prebiotics
Mushroom has been broadly used and appreciated for nutraceutical values and healthy properties in oriental countries for over 2000 years. More and more health conscious consumers come to realize that added att...
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Application of Wild Macrofungi as Anticancer Therapeutics
Man consume mushroom because it is delicious. In the East, mushroom as medicine is not uncommon. Following encouraging outcome from clinical trials, several properties from edible and wild mushroom species hav...
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Exploration of Macrofungi in Sub-Tropical Semi-Evergreen Indian Forest Ecosystems
Mushrooms have been known as additional food worldwide for their high nutritional content and medicinal importance for instance anticancer, anti-diabetic, anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, antioxidant, antipar...
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Medicinal Mushrooms: Cultivation and Pharmaceutical Impact
Mushroom cultivation for medicinal use marks a milestone that the society has moved into an era where mushrooms are no longer perceived as mere food that enhance the experience of satiety but edibles with valu...
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Molecular Characterization of Wild Mushrooms: A Paradigm Shift from Morphoty**
The traditional morphological study for the classification and identification of higher organisms depends on the morphotypic features. Development of precise molecular markers and techniques along with statist...
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Cordycepin: A Biotherapeutic Molecule from Medicinal Mushroom
Cordyceps is one of the most well-known mushroom with numerous bioactive compounds possess wide range of biotherapeutic activities. This mushroom has been used for many years as medicinal food particularly in Chi...
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Mushroom-Mediated Protection from Oxidative Damage to DNA
Oxidative damage to DNA caused by excess generation and accumulation of intracellular reactive oxygen species is widely associated with numerous ailments including cancer, diabetes and various age-related neur...
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Bioconversion and Biotransformation Efficiencies of Wild Macrofungi
With the capacity to produce different enzymes, macrofungi are able to efficiently degrade a wide rage of substances, so that, they are used as biodetoxification and bioremediation agents. For the ability to a...
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Biotechnological Requirements for the Commercial Cultivation of Macrofungi: Substrate and Casing Layer
The mushroom industry is an expanding agricultural activity with five genera covering the majority of the world’s mushroom supply: Agaricus, Pleurotus, Lentinula, auricularia and Flammulina. However, other specie...
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Mushrooms: Isolation and Purification of Exopolysaccharides
Mushrooms are kind of fungi that have been used as food and medicine, with rich sources of bioactive natural components. Polysaccharide is one of main bioactive constituents in mushroom, mostly composed of glu...
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Pharmaceutic Prodigy of Ergosterol and Protein Profile of Ganoderma lucidum
Ganoderma lucidum, a specie belonging to the class basidiomycetes, family polyporaceae of the order aphyllophorales has been widely utilized as a source of potential nutracuetical products. The cell wall of Ganod...
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Recent Advances in Cultivation of Edible Mushrooms
Mushrooms are known to be extremely rich in nutritional and therapeutic properties. An increase in knowledge about these attributes has led to a positive impact on their cultivation in the last few years. Glob...
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A Global Overview of Edible Mushrooms
WEF, non-timber forest resource has been exploited across the globe since ancient period. Wide ranges of edible varieties, truffles, morels, termite mushrooms, milky caps, chanterelles, boletes etc. were part ...
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Biological Control of Microbial Pathogens in Edible Mushrooms
The cultivation of edible mushrooms is susceptible to suffer certain diseases caused by a number of diseases and pests. Fungal, bacterial and mushroom flies conduct to significant reductions of productivity an...
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Antimicrobial and Hepatoprotective Activities of Edible Mushrooms
The problem of the existence and prevalence of infectious diseases caused by pathogenic microorganisms in human society is persisted. Many studies have endeavoured to highlight the therapeutic potential of mus...
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Biosynthesis of Nanoparticles Using Mushrooms
The era of chemical and physical synthesis of nanoparticles is coming to an end as the concerns regarding toxic byproducts and drastic experimental conditions pile up. Biological or green synthesis of nanopart...
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Chemical and Bioactive Profiling of Wild Edible Mushrooms
These days’ edible mushrooms and there in vitro cultures are investigated more often and are used as part of pro-health prophylaxis. In addition to a typical prophylactic use, the multitude of bioactive substance...
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Wild Macro-Fungi from Northwest Himalayas: Future Prospects and Challenges
In today’s scenario with the fast depletion of natural plant resources and increasing population, it has become necessary to explore the possibilities of using newer indigenous plant resources. Wild food resou...
