Agricus fungii 10 characteristics
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Agaricus is a genus of mushrooms containing both edible and poisonous species, with possibly over 300 members worldwide.[2][3] The genus includes the common ("button") mushroom (Agaricus bisporus) and the field mushroom (Agaricus campestris), the dominant cultivated mushrooms of the West
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agaricus genus represents the most important cultivated edible mushroom. A. bisporus (J.E. Lange) Emil J. Imbach, a “common button mushroom,” has the leading position among edible cultivated mushrooms, whereas A. brasiliensis Waser is cultivated all around the world for its medicinal properties (Llarena-Hernández et al., 2013). These species have been demonstrated to express diverse and valuable medicinal properties including antitumor, antiaromatase, antimicrobial, immunomodulatory, anti-QS antiinflammatory, as well as antioxidant, activities (Ferreira et al., 2010; Jeong et al., 2010; Kozarski et al., 2011; Moro et al., 2012; Sokovic et al., 2014). A. brasiliensis is an edible fungus belonging to the Brazilian biota, and has traditionally been used to treat cancer and other diseases (Wang et al., 2013). This species is also known as A. blazei Murill (ABM) and is a relative newcomer that was first found in 1960 in Piedade (Brazil) (Fig. 5.1).