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 …

Fungal exopolysaccharides (EPSs) represent an important group of bioactive compounds
secreted by fungi. These biopolymers can be utilized individually or in combination with …

Mycelium biomass and exopolysaccharides (EPS) from Pleurotus ostreatus origin have
gained peculiar attention because of their myriad applications in the food and …

This work deals with the submerged cultivation, extraction and antitumor activity of
polysaccharides from Lentinus crinitus. The fungus was isolated from a tropical forest …

Recently, the significant economic and therapeutic potential of different fungi causes the
intense cultivation of the prospective species. This review presents the analysis of the basic …

The Collection includes a total number of 1340 strains belonging to 265 species of
Basidiomycota and Ascomycota. The IBK Collection is the largest official specialized culture …

The findings of the study demonstrate the impact of low-intensity laser and quasi-
monochromatic light on the biosynthetic activity of the edible medicinal fungus L. edodes …

Understanding the impact of light on the physiology and metabolism of edible and medicinal
mushrooms can step up the technologies aimed at obtaining bioactive compounds. The …

Edible mushrooms have rich nutrition (eg, proteins, dietary fibers, polysaccharides) and they
can be potential sources of important ingredients in food processing. However, the …

Background To date, basidiomycetes are considered to be promising objects of
biotechnology, due to a number of biologically active compounds, such as polysaccharides …