Introduction. 2.

History of mushroom science. 3.

Nutritional value of mushrooms. 4.

Classification and morphology of mushrooms. 5.

Substrates and their management. 6.

Spawn and spawning. 7.

Environmentally safe practices. 8.

Cultivation of white button mushroom. 9.

Cultivation of Oyster. 10.

Cultivation of Shiitake mushroom. 11.

Cultivation of paddy straw mushroom. 12.

Post harvest technology. 13.

Management of Spent Mushroom Substrate (SMS). 14.

Economics of mushroom cultivation. 15.

Pests and diseases management. 16.

Marketing mushroom. 17.

Medicinal value of mushrooms. 18.

Mushrooms and religion. 19.

Ecosystem and mushrooms cultivation. 20.

Mushroom toxins. 21.

Mushroom recipes. 22.

Magic and hallucinogenic mushrooms. 23.

Edible and poisonous mushrooms. 24.

Glossary. Appendix.

References. "Mushrooms have been recognised as most loved vegetarian food, rich in nutrition, particularly protein.

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1. History.

2. Progress in India.

3. Botanical features and propagation.

4. Conventional types of compost.

5. Compost making and spawning.

6. Controlling weed fungi.

7. Temperature requirements.

8. Accessories and equipment.

9. Cultivation of button mushroom.

10. Cultivation of oyester mushroom.

11. Growing paddy-straw mushroom.

12. Preparing grain spawn.

13. Do's and dont's of mushroom growing.

14. Delicious recipies of mushroom.

15. Commercial aspects and economics.

16. Nutrition from mushroom.

17. Mushroom growing in gardens.

18. Preservation of mushroom.

19. Edible mushrooms of this country.

20. Poisonous mushrooms.

21. Other uses of mushroom.

Appendixes. "Mushroom should no longer be identified with the scornful term, 'Toad-stool'.

Now it is regarded as a protein-rich-wonder food and is no less useful than other indispensable fungi like yeast, Penicillium, Streptomyces, etc. The role of yeast is to cause fermentation for making malt, bread, alcohol etc.

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2. Importance, identification and classification of mushrooms.

3. Culturing of mushroom and spawn preparation.

4. Mushroom farm / house design.

5. Cultivation of button mushroom (Agaricus Bisporus).

6. Cultivation of oyster mushroom (Pleurotus Spp.

). 7.

Cultivation of paddy straw mushroom (Volvariella Spp.).

8. Management of mushroom diseases, insect, pests and nematodes.

9. Post harvest technique.

10. Cultivation of Gucchi Mushroom (Morchella Spp.

). 11.

Economics of mushroom cultivation. 12.

Mushroom recipes collection. 13.

Mushroom genetics and breeding. References.

Glossary. Appendix.

Sources of information on mushroom cultivation. Subject index.

"Modern Mushroom Cultivation is the latest comprehensive and up to date references cum text. The book would be of immense use to graduate and post graduate students of plant pathology, agriculture mycology and botany, research and extension workers and also industrial development agencies and progressive farmers who are interested in scientific production and export of mushroom.

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1. Ustad Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan.

2. Ustad Abdul Karim Khan.

3. Ustad Ahmed Jaan Thirakhwa.

4. Ustad Ali Akbar Khan.

5. Ustad Amir Khan.

6. Ustad Amjad Ali Khan.

7. Dr Balamurali Krishna.

8. Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan.

9. Begum Akhtar.

10. Pandit Bhimsen Joshi.

11. Ustad Bismillah Khan.

12. D.

K. Pattammal.

13. Pandit D.

V. Paluskar.

14. Ustad Enayat Khan.

15. Ustad Faiyaz Khan.

16. Dr.

Gangubai Hangal. 17.

Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan. 18.

Girija Devi. 19.

Ustad Haafiz Ali Khan. 20.

Pandit Hari Prasad Chaurasia. 21.

Ustad Imdad Khan. 22.

Pandit Jasraj. 23.

Surashri Kesarbai Kerkar. 24.

Pandit Kishan Maharaj. 25.

Kishori Amonkar. 26.

Pandit Kumar Gandharva. 27.

Dr. L.

Subramaniam. 28.

Maharajapuram V. Santhanam.

29. M.

L. Vasanthakumari.

30. Mogubai Kurdikar.

31. M.

S. Subbulakshmi.

32. Pandit Nikhil Banerjee.

33. Pandit Omkarnath Thakur.

34. Begum Parveen Sultana.

35. Ustad Rais Khan.

36. Pandit Ravi Shankar.

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2. Medicinal value of mushrooms.

3. Advantages of mushrooms.

4. Poisonous mushrooms.

5. Morphology of common edible mushrooms.

6. Common edible mushrooms of India.

7. Where and when to go mushrooming.

8. How to collect and identity fungi.

9. Classification of fungi - a brief survey.

10. Delicious recipes of mushroom.

11. Chemical composition, anti-nutritional factors and shelf-life of oyster mushroom (Pleurotus ostreatus).

12. Composition and food value of sclerotium (OSU) and edible mushroom (Pleurotus Tuber-regium).

13. Osmotic dehydration characteristics of button mushrooms.

14. Effect of modified atmosphere packaging on low molecular weight carbohydrates of oyster mushrooms.

15. Mushroom cultivation.

16. Cultivation of white button mushroom (Agaricus bisporus).

17. Cultivation of agaricus bitorquis.

18. Cultivation of paddy straw mushroom (Volvariella Spp.

). 19.

Cultivation of pleurotus spp. 20.

Cultivation of stropharia rugoso annulata. 21.

Cultivation of auricularia spp. (Jew's ear).

22. Cultivation of flammulina velutipes.

23. Cultivation of pholiota (less)

1. Introduction.

2. Traditions and history of use.

3. Morphology of mushroom.

4. Nutrition from mushrooms.

5. Wild edible mushrooms form India.

6. Poisonous mushrooms.

7. Medicines from mushrooms.

8. Mushrooms as biosorbent of heavy metals.

9. Technology for mushroom cultivation.

10. Mushroom spawn production.

11. Preservation and processing of mushroom.

12. Delicious recipes of mushroom.

Bibliography. Index.

"Mushroom is the 'fruit' of certain fungi, analogous to the apple on a tree. As the popularity of mushrooms in the Indian diet continues to increase, people are becoming more interested in growing mushrooms commercially.

This publication presents more than 100 species of wild edible mushrooms growing throughout India along with coloured photographs which will aid in identification. Since a number of naturally growing mushrooms are poisonous, mushroom consumers should be cautious in choosing the edible varieties.

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Introduction. 2.

Global status of Mushroom production. 3.

Importance of Mushroom. 4.

History of Mushroom cultivation in India. 5.

Food value of Mushrooms. 6.

Steps in Mushroom growing. 7.

Cultivation technology of speciality Mushrooms. 8.

Pests and pathogens of Mushrooms. 9.

Post harvest handling and preservation of Mushrooms. 10.

Mushroom poisoning. Bibliography.

Index. "It is generally realized that there is an acute shortage of literature on mushroom cultivation based on the requirements of the growers in our country.

Therefore the present book has been written keeping those factors in view and the book shows a great variety of cheap and useless materials, e.g.

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Mushroom cultivation and processing. 2.

Mushroom growing and cultivation. 3.

Technology of Mushroom cultivation. 4.

Mushroom cultivation and marketing. 5.

Environmental Protection in the Mushroom farm community. 6.

Agaricus Mushroom growing: basic procedures. 7.

Floriculture, mushroom culture and hydroponics. 8.

Garbage composting for mushroom production. 9.

Cultivation of agaricus bisporus on some compost formulas and locally available casing materials. 10.

Mushroom cultivation on coffee pulp. 11.

Post-harvest management of Mushrooms. 12.

Mushroom buyers: a segmentation analysis. 13.

Diseases of mushrooms. 14.

Development of nutriceutical based on edible mushrooms. 15.

Small scale mushroom cultivation. 16.

Mushrooms: the vegetable of the future. Bibliography.

Index. Small-scale mushroom production represents an opportunity for farmers interested in an additional enterprise and is a speciality option for farmers without much land.

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2. Importance of mushrooms.

3. History of mushroom cultivation.

4. Present status of mushroom industry in India.

5. Biology of mushroom.

6. Food value of mushroom.

7. Steps in mushroom growing.

8. Management of diseases, competitors, pests and nematodes in mushrooms.

9. Importance and scope of specialty mushrooms.

10. Cultivation technology of specialty mushroom.

11. Post harvest handling and preservation of mushroom.

12. Uses of mushrooms.

Subject Index. "In India about 72-76% of human population lives in about 6,00,000 villages and is mainly engaged in agricultural and allied activities.

Recently, a lot of emphasis is being given to agro-based industries due to advantages of rural employment generation and gainful utilization of natural and farm resources. Large quantities of renewable lignocellulosic residues are generated every year as a result of extensive agriculture practices.

Their direct use as food is non-existent. Mushroom, on the other hand, have the ability to transform nutritionally useless waste (less)

Importance of mushrooms. 2.

Brief history of mushroom cultivation. 3.

Steps in mushroom growing. I.

The mushroom biology: 1. Life cycle of mushrooms.

2. Identification of mushrooms.

3. Edible and poisonous mushrooms.

4. Mushroom genetics and breeding.

5. Mushroom growth and environment.

II. Spawn and spawning: 1.

Spawn production. III.

White button mushroom (Agaricus Bisporus): 1. Compost preparation.

2. Spawning.

3. Crop management after spawning.

4. Casing.

5. Post-composting supplementation.

6. Management after spawn-run.

IV. Button or field mushroom: 1.

Production technology. V.

Oyster mushroom: 1. Materials and substrates.

2. Sterilization/pasteurzation.

3. Inoculation/spawning.

4. Incubation.

5. Fruiting.

6. Mushroom house design for pleurotus production.

VI. Straw mushroom: 1.

Composting the substrate. 2.

Substrate preparation and spawning. VII.

Shiitake mushroom: 1. Cultivation on supplemented sawdust.

VIII. White milky mushroom and other species: 1.

Cultivation. 2.

Other species of mushrooms. 3.

Silver ear mushroom or white jelly fungus. 4.

Truffles. 5.

Wood ear mushroom/black (less)

Introduction. 2.

Chronological events on edible fungi. 3.

Production of Spawn. 4.

Cultivation of Oyster-Mushroom. 5.

Cultivation of Paddy straw mushroom. 6.

Cultivation of white button mushroom. 7.

Cultivation of milky mushroom. 8.

Some edible and inedible fungi. 9.

Production of vermicompost from spent mushroom beds. Index.

"This book deals with all practical aspects of cultivation technology of four commonly grown mushroom viz. oyster, paddy straw, button and milky mushroom.

The cultivation technologies illustrated are suited to tropical and sub-tropical conditions that are very easy to adopt and economically viable. Methods to distinguish edible and poisonous mushrooms are well depicted.

The historical events of mushroom cultivation and recent developments are recorded in a chronological order and concise manner. An exhaustive list of edible, non-edible and poisonous fungal species is an important compilation which can serve as a check list of mushroom flora.

Further, description of selected wild edible mushrooms and preparation of (less)