Week-1-Introduction to Fungi, what are mushrooms? Mushrooms and toad stools.

Mycology is the study of fungi and mycologists are the people who carry out these studies. New research methods have substantially increased knowledge about the fundamental nature of fungi. Much of this research has focused on fungi that cause plant diseases. Research on edible fungi has concentrated on a small group of species that are commercially cultivated. Wild edible fungi have, until recently, been relatively ignored by science, though amateur mycologists often documented species they found in field studies, mostly in Europe or countries in which Europeans have settled. This chapter provides a brief introduction to the larger fungi (macrofungi), with special reference to those that are edible.

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