International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms

ISSN for PRINT: 1521-9437

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2000, Volume2

Issue 3

88 pages

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

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

Alessandra Ricelli
Dipartimento di Biologia Vegetale, Universita di Roma "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

Enrico Finotti
lstituto Nazionale della Nutrizione, via Ardeatina 546, 00100 Roma, Italy

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

Culture filtrates of Lentinus edodes (Berk.) Sing, (shiitake mushroom) added to potato dextrose broth inoculated with a toxigenic strain of Aspergillus parasiticus Speare showed an inhibiting effect on aflatoxin production. Filtrates from 30- (steady conditions) and 15-(shaken conditions)-day-old cultures were the most efficient in inhibiting aflatoxin production by A. parasiticus. Mycelia of L. edodes, incubated on wheat seeds for 20 and 30 days and subsequently inoculated with A. parasiticus, delayed fungal growth of the toxigenic strain and inhibited aflatoxin production. L. edodes represents a promising medicinal mushroom to control the infection by A. parasiticus and the aflatoxin production.

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