Journal
MYCOSPHERE
Volume 7, Issue 4, Pages 417-439Publisher
MYCOSPHERE PRESS
DOI: 10.5943/mycosphere/7/4/3
Keywords
check list; edible mushroom; medicinal mushroom; molecular phylogeny; poisonous mushroom
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- Chinese Academy of Sciences [2013T2S0030]
- Thailand Research Fund grant - Taxonomy, Phylogeny and biochemistry of Thai Basidiomycetes [BRG 5580009]
- National Research Council of Thailand (NRCT), projects-Taxonomy, Phylogeny and cultivation of Lentinus species in northern Thailand [NRCT/55201020007]
- Mae Fah Luang University, the project-Taxonomy, Phylogeny and cultivation of Lentinus species in northern Thailand [MFU/54 1 01 02 00 48]
- National Natural Science Funds of China [31000013, 31360014, 31470152]
- Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology, under the 12th 5-year National Key Technology Support Program (NKTSP) [2013BAB07B06]
- CGIAR Research Program 6: Forest, Trees and Agroforestry
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The genus Agaricus includes both edible and poisonous species, with more than 400 species worldwide. This genus includes many species, which are enormously important as sources of food and medicine, such as the button mushroom (Agaricus bisporus) and the almond mushroom (Agaricus subrufescens). This paper reviews the genus Agaricus in tropical and humid subtropical regions of Asia, including the history, characteristics, pertinent morphological and organoleptic taxonomic traits, molecular phylogeny and taxonomy advances, toxicity and edibility. This review includes Agaricus species that are known to be highly valued as edible and medicinal mushrooms, and provides a comprehensive checklist of species described from the tropical and humid subtropical regions of Asia until the end of 2015.
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