Edible macrofungi are being increasingly cultivated as they are seen as a sustainable and
popular food around the world. This trend is paralleled by the similar increase in the use of …

Mercury (Hg) is a highly toxic metal with no known biological function, and it can be highly
bioavailable in terrestrial ecosystems. Although fungi are important contributors to a number …

It has been known since the 1970s that differences exist in the profile of element content in
wild-growing mushroom species, although knowledge of the role of mushroom …

Definition Amanita muscaria is the most emblematic mushroom in the popular
representation. It is an ectomycorrhizal fungus endemic to the cold ecosystems of the …

In Asian countries, the sclerotia of the wild-grown fungus Pachyma hoelen (“Fuling”), have
been used as food and as medicinal products for centuries. To close the knowledge gaps …

Cortinarius caperatus grows in the northern regions of Europe, North America and Asia and
is widely collected by mushroom foragers across Europe. This study shows that in the last …

The occurrence and associations of Ag, As, Ba, Bi, Cd, Co, Cu, Cs, Hg, Ni, Pb, Rb, Sb, Sr, Tl,
U, V, W, and Zn, including data that have not been previously reported on Be, Hf, In, Li, Mo …

The contamination, bio-concentration and distribution of mercury (Hg) in wild mushrooms of
the genus Tricholoma such as T. equestre, T. portentosum, T. columbeta, and T. terreum …

The dichloromethane extraction was applied to extracted volatile compounds of the six
developmental stages of caps and stipes of an Amanita rubescens mushroom and the …

In the present work, we focused on two aspects of mercury (Hg) bioconcentration in the
above-ground parts of Neoboletus luridiformis. In the first part, we monitored the …