Manual of Indian Edible Mushrooms is the only comprehensive guide to Indian Edible Mushrooms published so far. This book includes descriptions and repots of 281 edible species belonging to different groups of fungi, thier synonyms, distribution in India along with a new key to facilitate easy identification of genera.

Features:
– Distinguishing features of edible and poisonous species have been carefully discussed. In addition, detailed cultivation technology of several promisin edible mushrooms, their food values have also been incorporated.

– Diagrams illustrating a large number of edible species, their structural features, excellent photographs, an expanded glossary of terms and local names of common species are some of the attractive features of this edition.

– An invaluable source of references related to the wide range of topics discussed, makes this book an asset for anybody in the subject field of mushrooms. The wealth of information presented in this treatise will be useful to undergraduate and post-graduate students, researchers and teachers of plant sciences, agriculturalists, as well as industrial microbiologists, mycologists, food technologists and commercial mushroom growers.

1. INTRODUCTION
Habitat
How to collect mushrooms
Spore Prints
Drying and Preservation
Structural features associated with identification of mushrooms
Use of key
Scope of the present work

2.EDIBLE AND POISONOUS MUSHROOMS

3. SYSTEMATIC ACCOUNT OF EDIBLE SPECIES
Cup fungi and allies
Stomach fungi
Jelly fungi
Silver ear fungus
Pore fungi
Fairy club fungi
Tooth fungi
Chanterelles and allies
Gill fungi
Boleti

4. KEY TO GENERA

5. CULTIVATION TECHNOLOGY (All italics in this section)
Agaricus bisporus
A. bitorquis
Volvariella volvacea
V. diplasia
Calocybe indica
Pleurotus sajor-caju
P. eous
P. ostreatus
P. fossulatus
P. flabellatus
Other edible mushrooms

6. FOOD VALUE OF EDIBLE MUSHROOMS

7. LOCAL NAMES OF EDIBLE SPECIES