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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

2002, Volume4

106 pages

Issue price - $128.00

Inhibiting Effect of Different Edible and Medicinal Mushrooms on the Growth of Two Ochratoxigenic Microfungi

Alessandra Ricelli
Dipartimento di Biologia Vegetale, Universita di Roma "La Sapienza," Largo Cristina di Svezia 24, 00165 Roma, Italy

Anna Adele Fabbri
Dipartimento di Biologia Vegetale, Universita di Roma "La Sapienza," Largo Cristina di Svezia 24, 00165 Roma, Italy

Paola Trionfetti-Nisini
Dipartimento di Biologia Vegetale, Universita degli Studi “La Sapienza,” Largo Cristina di Svezia, 24, 00165-Roma, Italy

Massimo Reverberi
Dipartimento di Biologia Vegetale, Universita di Roma "La Sapienza," Largo Cristina di Svezia 24, 00165 Roma, Italy

Slaven Zjalic
Dipartimento di Biologia Vegetale, Universita di Roma "La Sapienza," Largo Cristina di Svezia 24, 00165 Roma, Italy

Corrado Fanelli
Dipartimento di Biologia Vegetale, Universita di Roma "La Sapienza," Largo Cristina di Svezia 24, 00165 Roma, Italy

ABSTRACT

The efficacy of different antioxidant and antimicrobial substances on the growth of two ochratoxigenic fungi has been investigated. Among the compounds used are some edible and medicinal higher Basidiomycetes mushrooms, Lentinus edodes (Berk.) Sing., Agrocybe aegerita (Brig.) Sing., and Pleurotus eryngii (DC.: Fr) Quel., whose antimicrobial and antioxidant properties have already been reported. The experimental results obtained indicate that some antioxidants and some edible and medicinal mushroom extracts can inhibit the growth of the two tested toxigenic microfungi species, Aspergillus ochraceus and Penicillium verrucosum.