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Potential of European wild strains of Agaricus subrufescens for productivity and quality on wheat straw based compost

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The Brazilian almond mushroom is currently cultivated for its medicinal properties but cultivars are suspected all to have a common origin. The objective of this work was to assess the potential of wild isolates of Agaricus subrufescens Peck (Agaricus blazei, Agaricus brasiliensis) as a source of new traits to improve the mushroom yield and quality for developing new cultures under European growing conditions. The wild European strains analysed showed a good ability to be commercially cultivated on wheat straw and horse manure based compost: shorter time to fruiting, higher yield, similar antioxidant activities when compared to cultivars. They have a valuable potential of genetic and phenotypic diversity and proved to be interfertile with the original culture of the Brazilian almond mushroom. Intercontinental hybrids could be obtained and combine properties from both Brazilian and European germplasm for increasing the choice of strains cultivated by the mushroom growers.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by a research project funded by a bilateral cooperation between Mexico (project 115790 CONACYT) and France (ANR-09-BLAN-0391-01). RC Llarena Hernández would like to thank CONACYT, Mexico, for scholarship. The authors gratefully thank D.C. Zied for providing the Brazilian cultivars and D. Royse for providing strain WC837.

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  1. INRA, UR1264 MycSA, Mycologie et Sécurité des Aliments, CS 20032, 33882, Villenave d’Ornon Cedex, France

    Régulo Carlos Llarena-Hernández, Michèle L. Largeteau, Marie Foulongne-Oriol, Nathalie Ferrer & Jean-Michel Savoie

  2. Institut Méditerranéen de Biodiversité et d’Ecologie marine et continentale (UMR7263), Aix-Marseille Université — CNRS, Equipe “Vulnérabilité des Systèmes Microbiens”, Avenue Escadrille Normandie-Niemen, Boîte 452, 13397, Marseille Cedex 20, France

    Anne-Marie Farnet

  3. Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour, UMR CNRS 5254, IPREM - EEM - IBEAS, BP 1155, 64013, Pau, France

    Régulo Carlos Llarena-Hernández & Catherine Regnault-Roger

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Llarena-Hernández, R.C., Largeteau, M.L., Farnet, AM. et al. Potential of European wild strains of Agaricus subrufescens for productivity and quality on wheat straw based compost. World J Microbiol Biotechnol 29, 1243–1253 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11274-013-1287-3

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