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More than a dozen species of edible fungi are cultivated worldwide. The white button mushroom, Agaricus bisporus, is cultivated in over 100 countries and accounts for approximately 70% of all mushroom production (Chang and Miles 1989). A. bisporus mushrooms are cultivated on pasteurized compost prepared either from horse manure or agricultural wastes such as wheat or rice straw.
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Grewal, P.S. (2007). Mushroom pests. In: Lacey, L.A., Kaya, H.K. (eds) Field Manual of Techniques in Invertebrate Pathology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5933-9_21
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