Overview
- Presents the current knowledge on valuable wild edible mushrooms and the latest advances in their cultivation
- Summarizes the potential and the latest advances in the field, and also discusses the importance of mycorrhizal mushrooms in the context of climate change
- Gathers know-how and advances from leading international experts, covering topics such as diversity, molecular biology, biotechnology, cultivation, as well cultural, social, economic and environmental aspects
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About this book
The book inspires professionals and encourages young researchers to enter this field to develop the sustainable use of wild edible mushrooms using modern tools and approaches. It also highlights the importance of protecting forested environments, saving species from extinction and generating a significant income for local populations, while keeping alive and renewing the link between humans and wild edible mushrooms so that in the future, the sustainable farming and use of edible mycorrhizal mushrooms will play a predominant role in the management and preservation of forested lands.
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Introduction
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Biodiversity and Cultivation
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Case Studies
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Socioeconomical and Cultural Importance
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Ecology with Emphasis on Wild Edible Fungi
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Alexis Guerin-Laguette is a Senior Scientist at The New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Ltd focusing on edible mycorrhizal fungi (EMF). He has worked in France, Japan and Canada. His passion for EMF stems from his PhDon Lactarius deliciosus and postdoc on Tricholoma matsutake. In New Zealand, he extended his activities to truffles. He is the Technical Representative for the NZ Truffle Association and since 2015, has collaborated with the Kunming Institute of Botany, CAS. He has authored over 20 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. He is the Secretary of the International Workshop on Edible Mycorrhizal Mushrooms.
Roberto Flores Arzú is a Professor at the Universidad de San Carlos, Guatemala with a PhD from the University of Murcia, Spain. He has been a visiting scholar at IRTA in Barcelona; Universities of Tlaxcala, Mexico; Bologna, Pavia, and Cagliari in Italy. He has published papers on the macrofungi of Guatemala and the description and synthesis of ectomycorrhizae of Neotropical trees. His current research, in collaboration with scientists from China, Italy, Mexico and Japan, focuses on macrofungal taxonomy, ectomycorrhizae and ethnomycology.
Yu Fu-Qiang is an Associate Professor and Director of the General Office at the Kunming Institute of Botany, CAS. He was a visiting scholar at the Department of Botany, Chicago. His research focuses on the diversity, management and cultivation of hypogeous fungi and highly-prized ectomycorrhizal fungi, and he leads a group hosting scholars from New Zealand, Japan, United States, Mexico and Spain. He has published over 20 papers and authored 4 patents on the cultivation and management of high-prized mushrooms.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mushrooms, Humans and Nature in a Changing World
Book Subtitle: Perspectives from Ecological, Agricultural and Social Sciences
Editors: Jesús Pérez-Moreno, Alexis Guerin-Laguette, Roberto Flores Arzú, Fu-Qiang Yu
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37378-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-37377-1Published: 29 April 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-37380-1Published: 29 April 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-37378-8Published: 28 April 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 480
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations, 162 illustrations in colour
Topics: Biodiversity, Food Science, Mycology, Conservation Biology/Ecology, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts, Ethnology