In several regions of Africa, the daily diet is partly dependent on the edible products from
wild animals, plants, and mushrooms, driven by their availability, wide distribution in the …

Mushroom farming is an emerging industry in Africa with great potential to improve
livelihoods. However, the industry is still dominated by a few exotic varieties faced with …

The world population is projected to reach 9 billion people in the year 2050 doubling the
current pressure on the earth's finite resources (water, soil, air). There is therefore a need to …

Mushrooms are universally valued for their dietary and therapeutic significance. Their
importance could be attributed to numerous nutritive and dietary substances including …

Background Edible fungi including wild mushrooms have been largely neglected and
underutilized in Africa. Not only is the number of edible species unknown, but the critical role …

The accumulated secondary metabolites in medicinal mushrooms have been widely
accepted as sources of safe and effective nutraceuticals, cosmeceuticals, and …

Mushrooms have high contents of qualitatively good protein, crude fibre, minerals and
vitamins but are poor sources of lipids. Apart from their nutritional potentials, they are also …

Mushrooms are vital source of nutritious and functional food and income for humankind.
They are widely reported as reservoir of highly varied biologically active compounds, which …

Global interest in mushroom farming techniques has grown in the last few years. Despite not
making up a large amount of the human diet at the moment, the nutritional worth of …

For centuries, mushrooms have been appreciated as sources of food nutrients and
pharmacologically important compounds useful in medicine. Yet not all the medicinal …