Biology, Cultivation and Applications of Mushrooms

Prof. Arun Arya,,Ex-Head, Department of Environmental Studies in The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara INDIA. He is a Botanist, Phytopathologist, philatelist and a popular science writer. Fellow of Indian Botanical Society, Indian Phytopathological Society, he is a recipient of Young Scientist award by DST and V. Puri Gold Medal by Indian Botanical Society. He specializes in Fungal Taxonomy, Aerobiology and Mycorrhizae. He has worked on deterioration of Egyptian Mummy and co-chaired the session in 12th World Forestry Congress at Canada. He has published 150 papers and 15 books including Management of Fungal Plant Pathogens, published by CABI. Dr. Katerina Rusevska, Associate Professor at Institute of Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, UKIM, Macedonia. Her fields of interest include subjects of Mycology (General Mycology, Fungi of Macedonia), Nutritional aspect of Mushrooms, Medicinal Mushrooms and Methods in biology teaching for teacher in primary and secondary schools as well. Since 2019 she is General Secretary of European Mycological Association and Secretary of Scientific Journal Biologia Macedonica. An expert on Molecular identification, she has guided 13 scientific projects. She has more than 52 research papers in International Journals, and 10 chapters in books to her credit, and has presented 45 papers in conferences.

Chapter 1. Beauty, Diversity and Potential Uses of Certain Macrofungi.- Chapter 2. Therapeutic Potential of Medicinal Mushrooms : Insights into its Use against Covid-19.- Chapter 3. Recent advances in the discovery of bioactive metabolites from Xylaria Hill ex Schrank.- Chapter 4. Wild Medical Macrofungi in Montenegro: Diversity, Distribution, Ecology and Uses.- Chapter 5. Health Promoting and Pharmacological Compounds from Mushrooms.- Chapter 6. The nutritional and pharmacological potential of medicinal mushroom “Ganoderma lucidum (Lingzhi or Reishi)”.- Chapter 7. Anti-aging Properties of Medicinal Mushrooms in Systemic Aesthetic Medicine.- Chapter 8. Diversity, Chemistry and Environmental Contamination of Wild Growing Medicinal Mushroom Species as Sources of Biologically Active Substances (Antioxidants, Antidiabetics and AChE Inhibitors).- Chapter 9. Edible and Medicinal Mushrooms: Some Aspects and Prospects.- Chapter 10. Truffles: The Cultivation and Health Benefits.- Chapter 11. Auricularia spp.: From farm to pharmacy.- Chapter 12. Therapeutic Potential of Mushroom Bioactive Nutraceuticals.- Chapter 13. Potential Uses of Mushrooms as Dietary Supplement to Enhance Memory.- Chapter 14. Beauty, Diversity and Utility of Mushrooms on Postage Stamps.- Chapter 15. Citizen for Mushrooms.- Chapter 16. Mushroom Biotechnology: Developing Cultivation Protocol for Four different Mushrooms and Accessing their potential in Pollution Management.- Chapter 17. The Tolimas and The Mushroom: Mycolatry in Prehispanic Colombia.- Chapter 18. Lignocellulosic Waste Management through Cultivation of Certain commercially useful and Medicinal Mushrooms.- Chapter 19. Selective and Simultaneous Delignification Capacity of Wood decay Fungi Trametes pini in Tectona  grandis L. f. and Terminalia  crenulata (Heyne) Roth.- Chapter 20. Biological and Ecological Aspects of   Rare Bioluminescent Mushrooms.- Chapter 21. Cultivation of Two Edible Mushrooms and Need for Training of Mushroom Production Technology to Enhance Rural Economy.- Chapter 22. Cultivation and Medicinal Uses of Cordyceps militaris (L.) Link : A Revolutionary Entomopathogenic Fungus.- Chapter 23. Cultivation Technology of the Fungus Ganoderma lucidum (Curtis) P. Karst.- Chapter 24. Problems of Fungal Contaminants and Cultivation Strategies of Certain Medicinal Mushrooms.- Chapter 25. Biochemical Aspects and Cultivation of Medicinal Mushroom Pleurotus florida on Cellulosic waste of Cotton and Paper.