The aims of this study were to determine Cd and Pb contents in wild mushrooms from the eastern region of the “Green Lungs” of Poland (GLP), compare them to Cd and Pb contents in some popular species of cultivated mushrooms, and evaluate mushroom contribution to the daily intake of Cd and Pb. Trace elements were determined in 21 species of edible mushrooms: 18 species of wild mushrooms and 3 spe...

Tiger’s Milk mushroom has been used for medicinal purposes by local aborigines to treat asthma, breast cancer, cough, fever and food poisoning. Molecular phylogenetic analysis utilizing RNA polymerase II, second largest subunit (RPB2) gene, identified the wild Tiger’s Milk mushrooms collected from the state of Pahang in Malaysia for this study as Lignosus rhinocerus in the order Polyporales. Th...

Fungivorous mites and other acari associated with mushroom colonies are known since the beginning of acarology. Most them tiny difficult or impossible to see naked eye. myceliophagous (Behan & Hill, 1978; Renker et al., 2005; Werner 2018). Large visible unaided on stems, caps, gills fleshy fruiting bodies life wild mushrooms have been widely observed by naturalists but rarely documented in ...

Introduction. Intake of wild growing edible mushroom in selected regions of Europe (especially East and Central Europe) is signifi cant. Additionally, mushrooms are able to accumulation many times higher amounts of nutritional and toxic elements than plants, therefore knowledge on their concentration levels and changes in their content is important for human health. Material and methods. Eleven...

Whether or not mechanisms underlying circadian locomotor rhythms and learning are related anatomically through the mushroom bodies (MBs) was investigated by monitoring behavioral rhythmicity in flies with MB lesions induced by chemical ablation and by mutations in five different genes. All flies tested were later examined histologically to assess (1) MB neuroanatomy, and (2) the condition of th...