Below you will find our pick of mushroom and fungi related articles;
Success of mushroom farming in Namibia attributed to training
- Ten years ago, Chido Govera was a 12-year-old orphan living outside Mutare, Zimbabwe, working to support herself after her mother died of AIDS, when she was given the opportunity to learn mushroom farming. Today, she is a key contributor to the success of mushroom farming projects throughout Africa, Colombia and India.
">Unique fungal collection could hold key to future antibiotics
- Scientists at Royal Holloway, University of London have joined forces with CABI to establish a facility to screen for potential new antibiotics.
Unique fungal collection could hold key to future antibiotics
- Scientists at Royal Holloway, University of London have joined forces with CABI to establish a facility to screen for potential new antibiotics.
Mushroom quality
- Mushroom quality is being studied to provide competitive advantage to the British mushroom industry and to offer the best quality to the consumer. Quality can be lost from mushrooms either as a result of natural ageing and development, or due to mechanical damage. Research is aimed at understanding the biology of these processes and to provide solutions for the mushroom industry.
Mushroom virus X
- Mushroom virus X (MVX) is a disease of the commercial mushroom, Agaricus bisporus. When first recorded in 1996 it was associated with localised areas of pin suppression. It is now thought to be responsible for a range of symptoms
A fortune in fungi
- MEBANE — Charles Bradley pulls two Black Perigord truffles from a baggie in his refrigerator.
They’re black, slimy and smell like wet ground and dirty feet.
He cradles the soft, damp fungus in the palm of his hand. People eat them, he says, and they’re worth a fortune.
“A pound of them goes for about $800 right now,” he says. “That one weighs just a little over an ounce. It’s worth about $50 or $60.”
Netherlands imposes total ban on 'magic' mushrooms
- Holland –famed for its lax drug laws – announced yesterday it was banning the sale of "magic" mushrooms, polarising Dutch opinion and spoiling the party for many.
"We intend to forbid [their] sale," announced the Dutch Justice Ministry spokesman, Wim van der Weegen. "That means shops caught doing so will be closed."
Mushroom cultivation transforming lives
- A non government organisation in Assam has given a new hope to the locals here by promoting mushroom cultivation as a new source of income for the people in Kamrup and Sonapur Districts.