Genetics and Breeding of Edible Mushrooms

Chang/, A.C.

1. Mushroom and Mushroom Biology 2. Culture Collections 3. Biological Background for Mushroom Breeding 4. Production of a Novel White Flammulina Velutipes by Breeding 5. Physiology and the Breeding of Flammulina Velutipes 6. Breeding for Mushroom Production in Lentinula Edodes 7. Protoplast Technology and Edible Mushrooms 8. Gene Transfer in Edible Fungi Using Protoplasts 9. Interspecific and Intergeneric Hybridization of Edible Mushrooms by Protoplast Fusion 10. Molecular Tools in Breeding Agaricus 11. Multilocus Enzyme Electrophoresis for the Genetic Analysis of Edible Mushrooms 12. Methods of Genetic Manipulation in Coprinus Cinereus 13. Application of Arbitrarily-Primed Polymerase Chain Reaction in Molecular Studies of Mushroom Species with Emphasis on Lentinula Edodes 14. A Strategy for Isolating Mushroom-Inducing Genes in Edible Basidiomycetes 15. Edible Mushrooms: Attributes and Applications