Microbial communities and soil chemical features associated with commercial production of the medicinal mushroom Ganoderma lingzhi in soil.

ABSTRACT: Crop production, including mushroom farming, may cause significant changes to the underlying substrates which in turn, can influence crop quality and quantity during subsequent years. Here in this study, we analyzed the production of the medicinal mushroom Ganoderma lingzhi and the associated soil microbial communities and soil chemical features over 24 months from April 2015 to April 2017. This Basidiomycete mushroom, known as Lingzhi in China, is commonly found on dead trees and wood logs in temperate and subtropical forests. Its economic and medicinal importance have propelled the development of a diversity of cultivation methods. The dominant method uses wood logs as the main substrate, which after colonization by Lingzhi mycelia, are buried in the soil to induce fruiting. The soil mic

SUBMITTER: Ke LQ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6825212 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature