The technological progress of traditionally cultivated Mushrooms in China: Lentinula edodes
摘要
Lentinula edodes is one of the five traditionally cultivated large fungi in China. There are detailed records of its cultivation in ancient Chinese literature. In ancient times, wood cutting cultivation was found on trees after logging, and mushroom spores would freely fall and inoculate, thus growing fragrant mushrooms. Western mycological knowledge and Japanese mushroom cultivation techniques were disseminated during the Republic of China period. Along with improved cultivation techniques, experiments were also conducted to study the improvement of bacterial strains, resulting in the emergence of 'spore powder', 'mushroom wood powder', and 'seed wood' strains. It was not until the 1950s that pure mycelium strains were successfully developed and promoted for use in production.