Mushrooms: Cultivation, Nutritional Value, Medicinal Effect, and Environmental Impact - Hardcover

Miles, Philip G.; Chang, Shu-Ting

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0849310431 ISBN 13: 9780849310430

Publisher: CRC Press, 2004

Synopsis

Since the publication of the first edition, important developments have emerged in modern mushroom biology and world mushroom production and products. The relationship of mushrooms with human welfare and the environment, medicinal properties of mushrooms, and the global marketing value of mushrooms and their products have all garnered great attention, identifying the need for an updated, authoritative reference.

Mushrooms: Cultivation, Nutritional Value, Medicinal Effect, and Environmental Impact, Second Edition presents the latest cultivation and biotechnological advances that contribute to the modernization of mushroom farming and the mushroom industry. It describes the individual steps of the complex mushroom cultivation process, along with comprehensive coverage of mushroom breeding, efficient cultivation practices, nutritional value, medicinal utility, and environmental impact. Maintaining the format, organization, and focus of the previous edition, this thoroughly revised edition includes the most recent research findings and many new references. It features new chapters on medicinal mushrooms and the effects of pests and diseases on mushroom cultivation. There are also updated chapters on specific edible mushrooms, and an expanded chapter on technology and mushrooms.

Rather than providing an encyclopedic review, this book emphasizes worldwide trends and developments in mushroom biology from an international perspective. It takes an interdisciplinary approach that will appeal to industrial and medical mycologists, mushroom growers, botanists, plant pathologists, and professionals and scientists in related fields. This book illustrates that mushroom cultivation has and will continue to have a positive global impact on long-term food nutrition, health care, environmental conservation and regeneration, and economic and social change.

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Review:

Since the publication of the first edition of this book, important developments in biotechnology and mushroom production made a new, revised version necessary. ... [This book] forms a comprehensive and up-to-date source of information for all interested in edible and medicinal mushrooms and their cultivation.
- Peroonia, 2004

The name 'S.-T. Chang' is almost synonymous with the cultivation and use of mushrooms...the personal practical experience, depth of knowledge, and enthusiasms of the authors shine in these chapters, which are to me the heart of the book...this new edition of the essential reference work mycologists involved in mushroom cultivation turn to will surely also play a role in helping promote mushroom cultivation and use.
-Mycological Research, February 2005

If you are a mushroom enthusiast, you must have this complex book. It would also serve admirably as part of a graduate level mycology course.
- Matthew W. Bernart, Rogue Community College, Oregon in the Journal of Natural Products, 2005, Volume 68

To my knowledge, no past or current book comes closes to covering all the subjects considered in this book...
- Solomon P. Wasser, in International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms, Volume 6

...The book is richly illustrated with more than 100 original photographs and figures. The book contains about 800 terms in the glossary, which is very useful, especially for amateurs and beginning scientists...

...This latest edition has been expanded by more than 60%. ...The new book contains 22 chapters...

... Well-written and thorough.... I would strongly recommend this new edition of mushrooms without hesitation to industrial and medicinal mycologists, mushroom growers, botanists, plant pathologists, and professionals and scientists in related fields.... I will use this book extensively, both in teaching mycology to university students and in experimental work in my laboratory.

The value of this book cannot be overestimated. ... This book is a real encyclopedia of mushroom biology including cultivation, nutritional value, medicinal value, and environmental impact.
- Solomon P. Wasser, in International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms, Volume 6

e book is richly illustrated with more than 100 original photographs and figures. The book contains about 800 terms in the glossary, which is very useful, especially for amateurs and beginning scientists...

About this edition

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0849310431
• ISBN 13: 9780849310430
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 478