Mushrooms are renewable natural gift for humankind, furnished with unique taste, flavor and
medicinal properties. For the last few decades study of mushroom polysaccharides has …

Edible mushrooms constitute an appreciated nutritional source for humans due to their low
caloric intake and their high content in carbohydrates, proteins, dietary fibre, phenolic …

The Basidiomycota constitutes a major phylum of the kingdom Fungi and is second in
species numbers to the Ascomycota. The present work provides an overview of all validly …

D-Glucans from edible mushrooms present diversified chemical structures. The most
common type consists of a backbone of β-D-glucose (1→ 3)-linked frequently branched at O …

The main chemical and biochemical constituents of nine edible mushrooms were evaluated
in this study. An enzymatic method was used to determine the α‐and β‐glucan contents, and …

Edible mushrooms are ubiquitous around the world due to their enormous health benefits.
Mushrooms have been used as folk medicine and healthy food from ancient times but their …

The discovery of nutritious dietary supplements and side effect-free therapeutics are a
priority in the current scenario of increasing instances of metabolic syndromes. In this …

A new water soluble galactoglucan with apparent molecular weight~ 1.61× 10 5 Da, was
isolated from the edible mushroom Pleurotus djamor by hot water extraction followed by …

Polysaccharides are a structurally diverse group of biological macromolecules of well-
known occurrence in nature. The mushroom, plant and other polysaccharides draw a lot of …

Mushroom species have been recognized as medicinal plant due to presence of various
bioactive compounds. The well known bioactive compound for biological and …