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  • Open Access
1 Citations
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Transmission of Oyster Mushroom Spherical Virus to Progeny via Basidiospores and Horizontally to a New Host Pleurotus floridanus

  • Yifan Wang,
  • Zhidong Wen,
  • Yaoyao Yang,
  • Xiangting Hu,
  • Zhizhong Song,
  • Haijing Hu,
  • Guoyue Song,
  • Lunhe You,
  • Jianrui Wang and
  • Xiaoyan Zhang
  • + 2 authors

Mycoviruses are usually transmitted horizontally via hyphal anastomosis and vertically through sporulation in natural settings. Oyster mushroom spherical virus (OMSV) is a mycovirus that infects Pleurotus ostreatus, with horizontal transmission via h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
121 Citations
10,215 Views
18 Pages

Structural Changes of Oil Palm Empty Fruit Bunch (OPEFB) after Fungal and Phosphoric Acid Pretreatment

  • Isroi,
  • Mofoluwake M. Ishola,
  • Ria Millati,
  • Siti Syamsiah,
  • Muhammad N. Cahyanto,
  • Claes Niklasson and
  • Mohammad J. Taherzadeh

17 December 2012

Oil palm empty fruit bunch (OPEFB) was pretreated using white-rot fungus Pleurotus floridanus, phosphoric acid or their combination, and the results were evaluated based on the biomass components, and its structural and morphological changes. The car...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,338 Views
17 Pages

11 July 2023

The biosynthesis of silver nanoparticles (Ag NPs) could play a significant role in the development of commercial antimicrobials. Herein, the biosynthesis of Ag NPs was studied using the edible mushroom Pleurotus floridanus, and following its formatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,227 Views
20 Pages

Resistance Sources to Brown Blotch Disease (Pseudomonas tolaasii) in a Diverse Collection of Pleurotus Mushroom Strains

  • Benjamin Azu Okorley,
  • Frederick Leo Sossah,
  • Dan Dai,
  • Shuai Xu,
  • Zhenghui Liu,
  • Bing Song,
  • Hongyan Sheng,
  • Yongping Fu and
  • Yu Li

9 November 2019

Brown blotch disease (BBD) caused by Pseudomonas tolaasii is one of the most devastating diseases of Pleurotus spp. worldwide. Breeding for resistant strains is the most effective method for controlling BBD. To identify resistant germplasm for BBD ma...

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,946 Views
15 Pages

Nutritional Value and Antioxidant, Antimicrobial and Cytotoxic Activity of Wild Macrofungi

  • Lina Rocío Dávila Giraldo,
  • Claudia Cristina Pérez Jaramillo,
  • Jonh Jairo Méndez Arteaga and
  • Walter Murillo-Arango

Macrofungi are among the most promising sources of biologically active natural products with nutritional qualities and therapeutic values. In this work, the nutritional value of nine species of wild macrofungi from Ibague-Tolima (Colombia) was evalua...

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  • Open Access
1,646 Views
18 Pages

Assessment of Native Wild Macromycete Strains for Mycoremediation of Copper-Contaminated Soils in Coffee Plantations

  • Areli Castellanos De La Cruz,
  • Clara Ivette Rincón-Molina,
  • Luis Alberto Manzano-Gómez,
  • Víctor Manuel Ruiz-Valdiviezo,
  • Adriana Gen-Jiménez,
  • Juan José Villalobos-Maldonado,
  • Francisco Alexander Rincón-Molina,
  • Eduardo Garrido-Ramírez and
  • Reiner Rincón-Rosales

This study evaluates the mycoremediation potential of wild mushroom species from Chiapas, Mexico, specifically for high copper concentrations. Nine fungal carpophores were collected from tropical forests near coffee plantations. The morphological cha...