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## Meet the editors

Dr Ajit Kumar Passari is working as a Postdoctoral Scientist in the Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Dr Passari has more than eight years of research experience in the fields of molecular biology, secondary metabolites production, PGPR, genomics, and metabolomics. Dr Passari has received multiple awards like *SNI Nacional Investigador Level I* under Conacyt funding of Gobier-

no De Mexico (2019) and *Young Scientist Award* at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (2017).

Prof. Sergio Sánchez is working as Professor in the Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, and has more than fifty years of research experience in the fields of genomics, molecular biology, proteomics, secondary metabolites production, transcriptomics, and PGPR. Prof. Sánchez has been awarded several honors like Fellow, National Institutes of Health in 1974-1975, and Fellow, Consejo Nacional

de Ciencia y Tecnología in 1973-1974.

Contents

Contents of Mushrooms

of Dyes

*and Pranab B. Mazumder*

and Functional Foods

*and Bamidele Juliet Akinyele*

*by Sunita Bandopadhyay Mukhopadhyay*

*by Moyen Uddin Pk, Rumana Pervin, Jabin Jahan,* 

*by Clement Olusola Ogidi, Victor Olusegun Oyetayo* 

*Rabiul Islam Talukder, Sourav Ahmed and Matiar Rahman*

**Preface XI**

**Chapter 1 1**

**Chapter 2 19**

**Chapter 3 39**

**Chapter 4 53**

**Chapter 5 65**

**Chapter 6 93**

**Chapter 7 115**

Antimicrobial and Antioxidant Potential of Wild Edible Mushrooms

Edible Mushroom: Nutritional Properties, Potential Nutraceutical

*by Maria Paula Gómez Román, Nathalia Badillo Mantilla,* 

Values, and Its Utilisation in Food Product Development *by Lee-Hoon Ho, Noroul Asyikeen Zulkifli and Thuan-Chew Tan*

Oyster Mushroom Cultivation on Water Hyacinth Biomass: Assessment of Yield Performances, Nutrient, and Toxic Element

Mushroom Polysaccharides: Chemistry and Anticancer Potentials

Molecular Mechanism Induced by Beta-Glucans from Maitake to Recover T Cell-Subpopulations during Immunosuppression *by Aguilera Braico Diego Maximo and Balogh Gabriela Andrea*

The Role of Mushrooms in Biodegradation and Decolorization

*by Abu Barkat Md Gulzar, Udaya Kumar Vandana, Prosenjit Paul* 

Wild Medicinal Mushrooms: Potential Applications in Phytomedicine

*Sergio Andrés Carreño Flórez, Surajit De Mandal, Ajit Kumar Passari, Beatriz Ruiz-Villáfan, Romina Rodríguez-Sanoja and Sergio Sánchez*

## Contents


Preface

Mushrooms have often been referred to as a functional food due to their high nutritional content. They have many medicinal properties such as being an antioxidant, antimicrobial, anticancer, antidiabetic, immune enhancer, and also used for the treatment of various diseases such as anthelmintic, anti-inflammatory, antipyretics, etc. According to current information, there are approximately twelvethousand species in the world, and out of them, 2000 species are reported as being edible. Around 35 edible mushroom varieties are cultivated commercially, whereas almost 200 wild species could be used for medicinal purposes. Mushrooms produce various types of extracellular enzymes that are useful for industry and also have the ability to decolorize dyes, which are very harmful to the environment. The present volume consists of seven chapters written by researchers from different countries, including the USA, Nigeria, Kenya, Brazil, Bangladesh, and India. This book covers most of the recent information about edible mushrooms and their applications as an alternative source for food production and biomedical fields. The editors express their robust appreciation to all the contributors for sharing their knowledge and ideas in this volume. The editors are also thankful to IntechOpen publishers for giving us a chance to amass this critical volume. We hope that the chapters presented in this book will be beneficial for students and researchers engaged in the

> **Ajit Kumar Passari and Sergio Sánchez** National Autonomous University of Mexico,

> > Mexico

mushroom research area.
