Mushrooms: Cultivation, Nutritional Value, Medicinal Effect and Environmental Impact FROM THE PUBLISHER
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 first edition, this thorough revision 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, 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.
SYNOPSIS
In this edition of Edible Mushrooms and Their Cultivation (1989), Chang (Chinese U. of Hong Kong) and Miles (State U. of New York, Buffalo) add new material and references on mushroom biology. After defining this macro-fungus broadly and overviewing this new field, they describe many species of mushrooms playing a growing role in a sustainable nongreen revolution. In addition to discussing biotechnological methods for, and socio-political barriers to, producing species of nutritional and medicinal value, the authors explain how mushrooms can be used to recycle organic matter. Annotation © 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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