Edible and Medicinal Macrofungi, 4th Edition
A special issue of Journal of Fungi (ISSN 2309-608X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2025 | Viewed by 92
Special Issue Editors
Interests: diversity and systematics of macrofungi; evolutionary genomics; molecular biology of mushrooms
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Interests: fungal secondary metabolites; marine natural products; drug discovery; genome mining; biosynthesis
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Fungi with large fruiting bodies that can be identified by the naked eye are generally referred to as macrofungi. Taxonomically, most macrofungi species come from the Basidiomycota division and a few come from Ascomycota, and, up to now, around 40,000 species have been described. Macrofungi are closely related to economic activities. Humans have a long history of using macrofungi for food and medicine. A fungus is a “natural chemical factory”; with the deepening of fungus-related research, a large number of species and new active components have been found, and fungi have become one of the innovative powers at work in drugs and health products, especially with the development of biochemistry, enzyme engineering, genetic engineering, and macrofungi in food, medicine, and other areas, which show their wide-ranging prospects. In this Special Issue, we will provide a platform for the advances being made in our understanding of the biodiversity, resource, evolution, biology, and biochemistry of edible and medicinal macrofungi (EMM).
This Special Issue will cover, but is not limited to, content focused on the following:
- The taxonomy and diversity of EMM;
- The phylogeny, phylogeography, and evolution of EMM;
- The molecular biology of EMM;
- The bioactive compounds of EMM.
Prof. Dr. Ruilin Zhao
Dr. Ling Liu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- mushroom
- evolution
- phylogeny
- biology
- bioactive compound
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