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  • Article
  • Open Access
937 Views
21 Pages

Improving the Yield and Quality of Morchella spp. Using Agricultural Waste

  • Jiawen Wang,
  • Weiming Cai,
  • Qunli Jin,
  • Lijun Fan,
  • Zier Guo and
  • Weilin Feng

28 September 2025

Morchella spp. is a type of valuable and rare edible fungi cultivated in soil. Optimization of the cultivation medium for Morchella spp. is key to obtaining high-efficiency production in an ecologically friendly manner. Recently, the sustainable reso...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,473 Views
13 Pages

Nitrates and Microbiome Components Engaged in Denitrification within Soil Regulate Morchella spp. Growth

  • Yujia Li,
  • Wei Lin,
  • Jie Chen,
  • Junbin Lin,
  • Rencai Feng,
  • Junjie Yan,
  • Renyun Miao and
  • Bingcheng Gan

Morels (Morchella spp.) are a kind of rare and precious edible fungus and have been successfully cultivated in many places. Currently, the widespread cultivation of morels poses a significant challenge owing to their demanding environmental requireme...

  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,679 Views
12 Pages

Challenges and Strategies for Continuous Cropping of Morchella spp.: A Review

  • Lingling Xu,
  • Yan Zhang,
  • Haijuan Li,
  • Jing Li and
  • Jing Xu

Continuous cropping obstacles (CCOs) have increasingly become an important phenomenon affecting morel mushroom yield and quality. In this review, we summarize the current knowledge about the driving factors behind morel mushroom continuous cropping,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,172 Views
16 Pages

Morchella rotation and intercropping is a new and efficient ecological planting mode, which not only contributes to economic growth, but also promotes the sustainable development of agriculture and has high ecological benefits. Morchella sextelata is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
902 Views
16 Pages

Microbial Diversity and Metabolite Changes in Greenhouse Soil Continuously Cropped with Morchella

  • Ping Yu,
  • Nan Tao,
  • Weimin Chen,
  • Jie Zhang,
  • Chunxin Yao and
  • Guoting Tian

True morels (Morchella spp., Morchellaceae, Ascomycota) are a rare and highly valuable edible fungus. As the morel cultivation scale has expanded, obstacles to continuous cropping have come to the fore. This study investigates the specific biological...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,160 Views
7 Pages

The cultivation of morel mushrooms (Morchella spp.) outdoors or in controlled indoor systems is a relatively new practice, and infections are beginning to be observed. Infection of indoor-cultivated Morchella rufobrunnea initials (primordia) occurred...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,074 Views
13 Pages

Interactions Between Morel Cultivation, Soil Microbes, and Mineral Nutrients: Impacts and Mechanisms

  • Yiwen Fu,
  • Muxin Fan,
  • Haiyan Qin,
  • Zeyu Zhang,
  • Shijun Liu,
  • Shuwen Wu,
  • Yun Wang and
  • Xia Yuan

24 May 2025

Morel mushrooms (Morchella spp.) are prized for their nutritional and medicinal value. Despite extensive research on their cultivation, the species’ impacts on the soil microbiota and minerals remain unclear. This study systematically evaluated...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,275 Views
15 Pages

28 September 2024

Morchella spp. (true morels) are precious edible mushrooms consumed around the world, with a delicious taste, rich nutritional value, and unique healthcare effects. Various fungi and bacteria have been reported to colonize the ascocarps of Morchella,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,997 Views
15 Pages

Analysis of Soil Microbial Community Structure and Function in Morchella esculenta Habitats in Jilin Province

  • Qi Yan,
  • Peng Wang,
  • Zhushan Liu,
  • Ya Yu,
  • Xiao Tan,
  • Xiao Huang,
  • Jiawei Wen and
  • Weidong Zhang

25 December 2024

Morel mushrooms (Morchella spp.), a globally distributed edible and medicinal fungus, possess significant economic and nutritional values. This study investigated rhizosphere soil samples collected from wild Morchella esculenta in three regions of Ji...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,993 Views
14 Pages

Investigation of the Impact of Soil Physicochemical Properties and Microbial Communities on the Successful Cultivation of Morchella in Greenhouses

  • Xinhai Liu,
  • Bo Yin,
  • Liqiang Meng,
  • Xiaoyu Zhao,
  • Jialong Wang,
  • Rui Liu,
  • Lina Hu,
  • Xiangxiang Wang,
  • Yu Liu and
  • Yinpeng Ma

Morels (Morchella spp.) are medicinal and edible mushrooms, renowned for their distinctive taste and appearance. Due to the low yields and difficulty of foraging wild morels, artificial cultivation has significant economic value. Outdoor cultivation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,287 Views
15 Pages

25 September 2024

True morels (Morchella spp.) are highly valuable and medicinal mushrooms. Saprophytic morels have been cultivated, especially in China and some Western countries, over the last few decades. Türkiye has a rich potential in terms of wild morel div...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,721 Views
15 Pages

Bio-Concentration and Influence of Environmental Factors on Accumulation of Heavy Metals in Edible Autumn Morel (Morchella galilaea) of Low Elevation

  • Hussain Badshah,
  • Surat Un Nisa,
  • Mohammad Ajmal Ali,
  • Mona S. Alwahibi,
  • Asif Kamal,
  • Muhammad Kaleem,
  • Anwarzeb Khan,
  • Shujaul Mulk Khan and
  • Abdul Samad Mumtaz

24 February 2023

Morels (Morchella spp.) are wild edible mushrooms and are globally known for their high nutritional value. The current study aims at probing the heavy metal content in early emerging autumn-type Morchella galilaea that occurs exclusively in the irrig...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,960 Views
16 Pages

Organization and Unconventional Integration of the Mating-Type Loci in Morchella Species

  • Hongmei Chai,
  • Ping Liu,
  • Yuanhao Ma,
  • Weimin Chen,
  • Nan Tao and
  • Yongchang Zhao

19 July 2022

True morels (Morchella spp.) are a group of delicious fungi in high demand worldwide, and some species of morels have been successfully cultivated in recent years. To better understand the sexual reproductive mechanisms of these fungi, we characteriz...

  • Article
  • Open Access
292 Views
15 Pages

Coupled Effects of Tree Species and Understory Morel on Modulating Soil Microbial Communities and Nutrient Dynamics

  • Xia Yuan,
  • Haiyan Qin,
  • Yun Wang,
  • Shuwen Wu,
  • Zeyu Zhang,
  • Muxin Fan,
  • Li Li,
  • Liuqian Tian and
  • Yiwen Fu

Morel mushrooms (Morchella spp.) are highly prized for their culinary and economic value. Understory cultivation, leveraging the symbiotic relationship between morels and trees, has gained increasing popularity. However, the effects of this practice...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
4,872 Views
12 Pages

13 October 2020

Morels (Morchella spp.) are popular edible fungi with significant economic and scientific value. However, white mold disease, caused by Paecilomyces penicillatus, can reduce morel yield by up to 80% in the main cultivation area in China. Paecilomyces...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,690 Views
11 Pages

True morels (Morchella spp.) are renowned for their aroma and taste, and hot air drying is widely used to extend the shelf life of harvested morels. However, the effects of different drying temperatures on volatile flavor compounds and non-volatile m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,150 Views
20 Pages

10 September 2025

Soil-borne diseases represent a major constraint on the sustainable cultivation of morel mushrooms (Morchella spp.), yet the microbial ecological mechanisms driving disease occurrence and progression remain poorly understood. In this study, we conduc...

  • Review
  • Open Access
30 Citations
18,855 Views
14 Pages

29 July 2020

Recently, consumption of the gyromitrin-containing neurotoxic mushroom Gyromitra sp. (false morel), as gourmet food was hypothesized to play a role in sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis genesis. The present review analyses recent data on edibilit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
84 Citations
13,832 Views
23 Pages

6 August 2020

The current study on the traditional use of medicinal plants was carried out from February 2018 to March 2020, in Gokand Valley, District Buner, Pakistan. The goal was to collect, interpret, and evaluate data on the application of medicinal plants. A...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,513 Views
16 Pages

Structure of the Mating-Type Genes and Mating Systems of Verpa bohemica and Verpa conica (Ascomycota, Pezizomycotina)

  • Wenhua Sun,
  • Wei Liu,
  • Yingli Cai,
  • Xiaofei Shi,
  • Liyuan Wu,
  • Jin Zhang,
  • Lingfang Er,
  • Qiuchen Huang,
  • Qi Yin and
  • Fuqiang Yu
  • + 2 authors

15 December 2023

Verpa spp. are potentially important economic fungi within Morchellaceae. However, fundamental research on their mating systems, the key aspects of their life cycle, remains scarce. Fungal sexual reproduction is chiefly governed by mating-type genes,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,790 Views
14 Pages

Mating-Type Genes Play an Important Role in Fruiting Body Development in Morchella sextelata

  • Qizheng Liu,
  • Shan Qu,
  • Guoqiang He,
  • Jinkang Wei and
  • Caihong Dong

25 May 2022

True morels (Morchella spp.) are edible mushrooms that are commercially important worldwide due to their rich nutrition and unique appearance. In recent years, outdoor cultivation has been achieved and expanded on a large scale in China. However, the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,887 Views
24 Pages

Integrated Transcriptomic and Proteomic Analyses Reveal Molecular Mechanism of Response to Heat Shock in Morchella sextelata

  • Jiexiong Zhang,
  • Yanxia Li,
  • Yifan Mao,
  • Yesheng Zhang,
  • Botong Zhou,
  • Wei Liu,
  • Wen Wang and
  • Chen Zhang

18 January 2025

Morels (Morchella spp.), as one of the rare macroascomycetes that can be cultivated artificially, possess significant economic and scientific values. Morel cultivation is highly sensitive to elevated temperatures; however, the mechanisms of their res...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,128 Views
16 Pages

Transcriptomic and Metabolomic Profiles Provide Insights into the Red-Stipe Symptom of Morel Fruiting Bodies

  • Chi Yang,
  • Xiaoling Jiang,
  • Lu Ma,
  • Donglai Xiao,
  • Xiaoyu Liu,
  • Zhenghe Ying,
  • Yaru Li and
  • Yanquan Lin

18 March 2023

The cultivation of true morels (Morchella spp., Morchellaceae, Ascomycota) has rapidly expanded in recent years, especially in China. Red stipe is a symptom wherein the stipe of morel fruiting bodies becomes red–gray, resulting in the gradual d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,035 Views
18 Pages

Integrated Transcriptomics–Proteomics Analysis Reveals the Response Mechanism of Morchella sextelata to Pseudodiploöspora longispora Infection

  • Shurong Wang,
  • Jingyi Wang,
  • Tengyun Wang,
  • Tonglou Li,
  • Lijing Xu,
  • Yanfen Cheng,
  • Mingchang Chang,
  • Junlong Meng and
  • Ludan Hou

26 August 2024

Morels (Morchella spp.) are valuable and rare edible mushrooms with unique flavors and high nutritional value. White mold disease occurring during cultivation has seriously affected the quality and yield of morels in China. In this study, the fungus...