Oyster mushrooms rank as the second most popular edible mushroom worldwide. They grow in the wild and farmers cultivate them on straw and various other substrates. They come in a range of colors, with ...

Oyster mushrooms (Pleurotus ostreatus) are a type of edible mushroom that are shaped like oysters. They're one of the most popular mushrooms in the world. Learn more about the benefits that oyster ...

The study compared the effects of three Pleurotus species on the rice: P. cystidiosus, P. ostreatus, and P. djamor. Proximate analysis, which measures the nutritional content of foods, revealed that ...

A few studies suggest that oyster mushrooms (Pleurotus ostreatus) may have anticancer properties. However, this does not prove that they can treat cancer in the human body, nor that they are a ...

These fungi produce a toxin called 3-octanone in a lollipop-shaped structure that, when touched by a nematode, is lethal to the invertebrate.

Oyster mushrooms (Pleurotus ostreatus) serenely growing on a tree trunk in a forest. But nematodes beware! These oyster mushrooms want to eat you—and they have evolved a novel mechanism for ...

Oyster mushrooms are delicious, but they have a little-known dark side: the fungus that produces them paralyses and kills nematode worms using a nerve gas, before sucking out their insides. Oyster ...

The largest living organism on our planet is neither animal nor plant. It lives in or, more accurately, under a forest in Oregon, spread over nine square kilometres. It glows eerily in the dark ...

Compounds 118 and 119, two dicyclic bisabolanes produced by the fungus Pleurotus cystidiosus were found to have significant cytotoxicity at the nM level. Especially, 119 exhibited the strongest effect ...

Oyster mushrooms, or Pleurotus species, are a group of gilled mushrooms. While mushrooms are classified as fungi, which are technically different from plants, they are a great addition to any meat ...

1 Key Laboratory of Shandong Province for Edible Mushroom Technology, School of Agriculture, Ludong University, Yantai, China 2 Institute of Mycology, Jilin Agricultural University, Changchun, China ...