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First successful domestication of a white strain of Auricularia cornea from Thailand

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    CAS Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, China

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    Centre for Mountain Futures, Kunming Institute of Botany, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, China

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    Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand

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    School of science, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand

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    Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand

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    World Agroforestry Centre, East and Central Asia, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, China

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  • Intraspecies colour variations in cultivated edible mushrooms present novel and potentially valuable alternatives to the research and cultivation industries. In this study, we collected, identified, and domesticated a white strain of Auricularia cornea from Thailand. The brown strain of A. cornea is one of the top two species of Auricularia cultivated and traded in Asia. Since both white and brown phenotypes of A. cornea belong to a single species, we established their similarities or differences. Both morphological characteristics and phylogenetic analysis of ITS rDNA sequence data were used to confirm the taxonomic placement of the white A. cornea strain in the same clade with the brown A. cornea. Nutritional analysis showed that fat, fiber, protein, and total soluble sugar contents of the white A. cornea were significantly higher than the commercially used brown strain. The melanin content of the white strain of A. cornea (less than 1.5 mg/100g) was not significantly different from that of the brown strain. This discovery may create new opportunities for the mushroom growing industry and for smallholder farmers in Asia.
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    AR Bandara, PE Mortimer, S Vadthanarat, P Xingrong, SC Karunarathna, KD Hyde, P Kakumyan, J Xu. 2020. First successful domestication of a white strain of Auricularia cornea from Thailand. Studies in Fungi 5(1):420−434 doi: 10.5943/sif/5/1/23
    AR Bandara, PE Mortimer, S Vadthanarat, P Xingrong, SC Karunarathna, KD Hyde, P Kakumyan, J Xu. 2020. First successful domestication of a white strain of Auricularia cornea from Thailand. Studies in Fungi 5(1):420−434 doi: 10.5943/sif/5/1/23
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ARTICLE   Open Access    

First successful domestication of a white strain of Auricularia cornea from Thailand

  • 1.

    CAS Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, China

  • 2.

    Centre for Mountain Futures, Kunming Institute of Botany, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, China

  • 3.

    Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand

  • 4.

    School of science, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand

  • 5.

    Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand

  • 6.

    World Agroforestry Centre, East and Central Asia, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, China

  • Received: 14 June 2020
  • Revised: 09 July 2020
  • Published online: 28 July 2020
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Abstract: Intraspecies colour variations in cultivated edible mushrooms present novel and potentially valuable alternatives to the research and cultivation industries. In this study, we collected, identified, and domesticated a white strain of Auricularia cornea from Thailand. The brown strain of A. cornea is one of the top two species of Auricularia cultivated and traded in Asia. Since both white and brown phenotypes of A. cornea belong to a single species, we established their similarities or differences. Both morphological characteristics and phylogenetic analysis of ITS rDNA sequence data were used to confirm the taxonomic placement of the white A. cornea strain in the same clade with the brown A. cornea. Nutritional analysis showed that fat, fiber, protein, and total soluble sugar contents of the white A. cornea were significantly higher than the commercially used brown strain. The melanin content of the white strain of A. cornea (less than 1.5 mg/100g) was not significantly different from that of the brown strain. This discovery may create new opportunities for the mushroom growing industry and for smallholder farmers in Asia.

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    AR Bandara, PE Mortimer, S Vadthanarat, P Xingrong, SC Karunarathna, KD Hyde, P Kakumyan, J Xu. 2020. First successful domestication of a white strain of Auricularia cornea from Thailand. Studies in Fungi 5(1):420−434 doi: 10.5943/sif/5/1/23
    AR Bandara, PE Mortimer, S Vadthanarat, P Xingrong, SC Karunarathna, KD Hyde, P Kakumyan, J Xu. 2020. First successful domestication of a white strain of Auricularia cornea from Thailand. Studies in Fungi 5(1):420−434 doi: 10.5943/sif/5/1/23
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