2. Contents
Beneficial fungi
1. Mushroom cultivation &
edibility.
2. Recycling and reuse
3. Fungi in industry
• Baking and brewing
• Fungi in food processing
• Fungi and enzyme production
• Fungi in medicine
• Commercially important fungal
metabolites
• Fungal drugs
• Fungi in paper making
4. Fungi as Biocontrol agents
5. Mycoremediation
Harmful fungi
1. Food spoilage by fungi
2. Fungi as Plant pathogens
3. Human diseases
4. Destruction to paper industry
7. Cultivated mushrooms
Specie name
Common name
Hericium erinaceus
H. coralloides
Lions mane,
Monkey’s head fungus
Agaricus bisporus
Button mushroom
Ganoderma lucidum
Reishi
Agrocybe aegerita
Pioppino mushroom, Chest nut
mushroom
Hysizygus tessulatus
Brown beach mushroom
Grifola frondosa
Hen of woods
Stropharia rugoso-annulata
Wine cap
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Baking and brewing
Fungi in food processing
Fungi and enzyme production
Fungi in medicine
Commercially important fungal metabolites
Fungal drugs
Fungi in paper making
17. Baking and brewing
Fungus name
Product
Division
Sacchromyces
carlsbergensis
Lager
Ascomycota
S. cerevisiae
Ales and wine
Ascomycota
S. uvarum
Cider
Ascomycota
S. sake
Saki
Ascomycota
Aspergillus oryzae
sake
Ascomycota
Botrytis cinerea
Sweet wine
Deutromycota
Cytarria harioti
Used in baking
Ascomycota
18. Fungi in food processing
Fungus name
Uses
Division
Penicillium caseolum
Ripening of cheese
Deutromycetes
Penicillium roquefortii
Give colour to cheese
(blue cheese)
Ascomycota
Aspergillus oryzae
Production of soya sauce
Ascomycota
Monoascus purpureus
Alter colour of the food
(red wine)
Ascomycota
Crysonilia
baking
Ascomycota
42. Food spoilage by fungi
Specie name
Food spoiled
Fusarium spp. , A. paraciticus,
P. citrinum, P. verrucosum,
Fusarium graminearum, Chrysonilia
sitophila
Cereals and nuts
Wellemia sebi, P. corylophilum
A. glaucus
Jam and jellies
Botrytis cinerea, Gloesporium spp. ,
Monilia
Fruits
Penicillium, Aspergillus, Eurotium,
Scopulariopsis
Fish, meat and egg
Eurotium herbariorum, A. versicolor,
Scopulariopsis sp.
Raw milk
Sclerotinia, Cladosporium, Alternaria,
Fusarium, Botrytis
Vegetables
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Polyporus adustus
Chaetomium
Aspergillus,
Cephalothecium
Stachybotrys
Alternaria
Fusarium
Cladosporium
Stemphyllium
Dematium
Polysticus hirsutus
