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Table 5 Mutagenicity of naturally occurring and cultivated mushroom species detected by Ames test

From: Mushroom as a product and their role in mycoremediation

S. no.

Mushroom types

Mutagenicity test results

Reference

1

Nine wild and two cultivated species of Spanish edible mushrooms

The mushrooms were mutagenic to TA100 and TA98 strains

Morales et al., ([1990])

2

Wild and commercially grown mushrooms

Presence of microsomal enzymes (S-9) reduced the mutagenic effects of all the mushrooms, with the exception of Agaricus abruptibulbus and Cantharellus cibarius.

Gruter et al., ([1991])

3

Agaricus bisporus

Direct-acting mutagenic response in various Salmonella typhimurium strains, TA104. Agaritine is not responsible for the mutagenicity of mushroom extracts

Papaparaskeva et al., ([1991])

4

Agaricus bisporus

Agaritine was weakly mutagenic, in the absence of an activation system, in Salmonella typhimurium strain TA104.

Walton et al., ([1997])

5

Pleurotus florida cultivated on handmade paper and cardboard industrial waste

Not mutagenic with either TA 98 or TA 100 strain

Kulshreshtha et al., ([2011])

6

Pleurotus citrinopileatus cultivated on handmade paper and cardboard industrial waste

Mushroom extract is mutagenic with TA 98 strain

Kulshreshtha et al., [(2013)]