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Medicinal Properties of Mediterranean Oyster Mushrooms: Species of Genus Pleurotus (Higher Basidiomycetes)

2017

The term “Mediterranean area,” applied in this chapter, refers to the definition reported in Med-Checklist and particularly to all countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea plus Portugal, Bulgaria, the Crimea (Ukraine), and Jordan. The “Mediterranean oyster mushrooms” is a geographically and ecologically well-defined group of Basidiomycetes. The medicinal properties of some widely investigated species such as Pleurotus ostreatus and P. eryngii are recognized worldwide, while in the case of some other Mediterranean Pleurotus taxa, there is still a lack of knowledge. A substantial increase in knowledge about the anticancer and antibacterial properties of the group of Pleurotus species growing…

Mediterranean climatePleurotusOysterbiologySettore BIO/02 - Botanica SistematicaFamily Apiaceaebiology.organism_classificationMediterranean area Medicinal mushrooms Antibacterial activity Oyster mushrooms PleurotusTaxonMediterranean seaGenusbiology.animalBotanySettore BIO/03 - Botanica Ambientale E ApplicataPleurotus ostreatus
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The genus Pleurotus in Italy

2015

On the basis of personal observations, herbarium specimens and, data reported in the literature the authors report morphological, ecological and distributive data on Pleurotus taxa from Italy. New descriptions are here provided based on the most distinctive-discriminating eco-morphological characters of twelve Pleurotus taxa.

PleurotusbiologyGenusSettore BIO/02 - Botanica SistematicaSettore BIO/03 - Botanica Ambientale E ApplicataBotanyoyster mushrooms descriptions ecology distributionPlant Sciencebiology.organism_classificationFlora Mediterranea
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