This book presents topical research from across the globe in the study of the types, properties and nutrition of mushrooms. It discusses topics that include edible mushroom role in weight regulation; disease control in the mushroom industry; sustainable use of microbial endophytes; hemolytic lectins of higher mushrooms; radioactivity of European wild growing edible mushrooms; co-cultivation of pleurotus species with yeasts; and, biologically active mushroom proteins and activation and stabilisation of mushroom tyrosinase by addition of polyethylene glycols.
