Mushrooms: Reservoir of vital nutrients and bioactives
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Authors
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Bindvi Arora
ICAR-Directorate of Mushroom Research, Chambaghat, Solan 173213, HP, India
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Shwet Kamal
ICAR-Directorate of Mushroom Research
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Shruti Sethi
ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi 110012, India
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Alka Joshi
ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi 110012, India
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V P Sharma
ICAR-Directorate of Mushroom Research, Chambaghat, Solan 173213, HP, India
Abstract
Mushrooms are macro sized fruit bodies of edible fungi belonging to class Basidomycetes. These are further categorized into classes based on their utility as edible and medicinal mushrooms. Certain mushrooms are known to contain potent biomolecules of high medicinal value. Besides medicinal mushrooms, Indian population in generalpreferfive different mushrooms classified into edible category viz. button mushroom (Agaricus bisporus) preferred in northern states, oyster mushroom (Pleurotus ostreatus) which is preferred in southern states, Paddy straw mushroom (Volvariella volvacea) preferred in Orissa and neighboring states, Shiitake mushroom (Lentinula edodes) and milky mushroom (Calocybe indica).Â
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