Medicinal Uses of Some Common Mushrooms

Ascomycota / Basidiomycota / Fungi / Ganoderma lucidum / Medical Mycology / Mushrooms / Mycology / Plant Pathology

Mushrooms are the beautiful and intricate fungi which have their usefulness and disadvantages. On one hand, they are edible but on the other hand they are parasitic, saprophytic and toxic through even a single bite to human. 

Flammulina velutipes

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Medicinal Value of Mushrooms

Basidiomycota / Medical Mycology / Mushrooms / Mycology / Plant Pathology

If we go into the history we will find many types of uses of mushrooms but our focus will be in the medicine. So here we will present an account of the medicinal value of the mushrooms.

Agaricus muscarius

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Medicinal Mushrooms and their History of Use

Ascomycota / Basidiomycota / Ganoderma lucidum / History / Medical Mycology / Mushrooms / Mycology / Plant Pathology

Mushrooms are typical spore producing fruiting bodies produced by major groups of fungi. Mushrooms serve in spore dispersal of the fungus. Although mushrooms are characteristic for the phylum Basidiomycota but some Ascomycetes also produce spores. 

Some of these mushrooms are fascinating, others have many stories associated with them, some are edible and some other are so toxic that even a bite can kill human. 

Ganoderma lucidum (A Medicinal Mushroom)

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Agriculture - Past, Present and Future

Agriculture / Agronomy / Animal Husbandry / Basics of Agriculture / Crop Husbandry / Forestry / Horticulture / Livestock / Mushrooms / Urban Agriculture

Agriculture is a main discipline of plant science and a very broad term. It can be defined in hundreds of ways, for example,

An art, a science & business as well of raising crops and rearing of animals through exploiting the natural resources (soil & climate) with the coordination of socio economic infrastructure to meet the fundamental necessities of life, i.e. food, feed, fibre and shelter.

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