Current and Future Research Trends on Medicinal Mushrooms, 2nd Edition

Dear Colleagues,

Medicinal mushrooms have been used throughout the world for centuries. Research, initially carried out only in the East until the 1990s, has since spread to other parts of the world and today represents an important branch of applied mycological studies. Medicinal mushrooms are credited with countless beneficial properties and exhibit a broad spectrum of pharmacological activities, including antibacterial, antifungal, antiviral, cytotoxic, immunomodulating, anti-inflammatory, antioxidative, antiallergic, antidepressive, antihyperlipidemic, antidiabetic, digestive, hepatoprotective, neuroprotective, nephroprotective, osteoprotective, and hypotensive. Despite the presence of ca. 5777 publications on medicinal mushrooms in the archives of the biomedical and life sciences literature, research in this area is still insufficient, especially with regard to evidence-based medicine. Medicinal mushrooms are used in the form of extracts or powder to prevent, relieve, or heal diseases and/or for nutritional reasons. The wide range of mushroom-based products on the market are not always of established origin and are sometimes of dubious taxonomic identification, and therefore, they do not meet the required quality criteria. For the reasons stated above, the proposal for a Special Issue on medicinal mushrooms is certainly timely and is intended to assemble contributions from experts around the world on the biodiversity of medicinal mushrooms; new trends in the cultivation, industrial production and fermentation of medicinal mushrooms; biochemistry and pharmacology of medicinal mushroom active compounds; the use of medicinal mushrooms in veterinary science and agriculture and in clinical practice; and the production of new mushroom-based products.

Prof. Dr. Giuseppe Venturella
Guest Editor

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