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International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms

ISSN for PRINT: 1521-9437

Institutional price:	$538.00
Issues per year:	4

Best Paper Award Selection - Editorial Board Site

2005, Volume7

344 pages

DOI: 10.1615/IntJMedMushr.v7.i12

Issue price - $256.00

Cultivation, Biochemical, Molecular Biological and Medical Aspects of the Culinary-Medicinal Straw Mushroom Volvariella volvacea (Bull.:Fr.) Singer (Agaricomycetideae)

John A. Buswell
Institute of Edible Fungi, Shanghai Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shanghai 201106, China

Mingjie Chen
Edible Fungi Institute, Shanghai Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shanghai, P.R. China

ABSTRACT

Key features associated with the cultivation of Volvariella volvacea, the edible straw mushroom, in a modern Chinese cultivation facility are described. Our current understanding of the biochemistry and molecular biology of V. volvacea cellulases and laccases, and the evidence supporting important roles for these enzymes in substrate utilization and fruit body development, is presented. Problems arising from low temperature-associated autolysis of the mushroom mycelium and fruit body and changes in gene expression that occur in V. volvacea mycelium during cold shock are detailed and analyzed. Various bioactive components isolated from V. volvacea are identified and ascribed medicinal properties reviewed.