Overview of Mushroom Cultivation and Utilization as Functional Foods
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I think all readers of this book belong to the former and not the latter. Knowledge of numerous new mushroom species has accumulated through time. The number of recognized mushroom species has been reported to be 14,000, which is about 10% of the total estimated mushroom species on the earth (Hawksworth, 2001). China is estimated to have about 1500–2000 edible mushroom species with 981 species identified. By 2002, 92 species have been domesticated while 60 of these have been commercially cultivated (Mau et al.,
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