Characteristic Study of Russula (Russulaceae) and its Socio-economic value in Respect of Bishnupur Forest of Bankura District, West Bengal, India
Keywords:
Bishnupur forest, Russula, Study of external morphology, Study of anatomy, Socio-economic importanceAbstract
Fungi are playing an important role in forest ecosystem like decomposition of organic matter, cycling of nutrient and transport of minerals. About 1.5 million fungi as reported worldwide belong to different family among which Russulaceae is considered as one of greatest family. It has approximately 2000 species in entire world. Near about 180 species belong to the genus Russula and 92 species belong to the genus Lactarius under Russulaceae have been reported from India till now. This ectomycorrhiza group is playing a great role in biodiversity conservation. The recent study has been focused on characteristic analysis (morphology & anatomy) of Russula and its economical aspect. There were 6 species of Russula collected from Bishnupur forest. It was noticed that Russula are easily grown in the soil of Bishnupur forest than other adjacent areas especially Russula aciculocystis richness was very high around 57.1%. About 50% only edible, 33% inedible and 17% medicinal with edible nature of Russula have been reported currently. Monthly distribution in monsoon is also noticed where the population was 31% in July, 52% in August and 17% in September respectively in Bishnupur forest.
Downloads
References
Adamcik S, Mitchell D, Buyck B(2010) Russula achrifloridana, sp. Nov, a new yellowish fishy Russula from Florida and its comparison with R grundii. Cryptogamie Mycologie 31, 363-372.
Atri NS, Saini MK, Saini SS(1994) Indian Russulaceae Roze – A checklist, In TA Sarma , SS Saini, ML Trivedi and M Sarma (ads) Current Researches in Plant Science. Dehradun. 81- 93
Atri NS, Saini SS, Saini MK, (1997) Studies on genus Russula Pers. From north western Himalayas. Mushroom Research 6(1), 1-6.
Aung OM, Soytong K, Hyde KD(2008) Diversity of entomopathogenic fungi in rainforests of Chiang Mai Province. Thailand. Fungal Diversity 30, 15-22
Barkley MJ(1851) Decades of fungi: Decades XXXII, XXXIII. Sikkim Himalayas fungi collected by Dr Hooker. Hooker’s Journal of Botany 3, 39-49.
Barkley MJ(1852) Decades of fungi: XXXIX, XL. Sikkim and Khassya and Khassya fungi. Hooker’s Journal of Botany 4, 130-142.
Barkley MJ(1854) Decades 41-43. Indian fungi. Hooker’s Journal of Botany 6, 129-143.
Barkley MJ(1876) Three fungi from Kashmir. Grevillea 4, 137-138.
Buyck B(1994) UBWOBA: Les Champignous Comestibles de I’Ouest du Burndi AGCD Rue du Trone. Bruxelles Publication of Agriculture. 4-1050.
Das K, Atri NS, Buyck B(2013). Three new species of Russula (Russulales) from India. Mycosphere. 4(4), 722-732. Doi 10.5943/mycosphere/4/4/9
Das K, Dowie NJ, Li GJ, Miller SL (2014) Two new species of Russula from India. Mycosphere. 5(5), 612-622. Doi 10.5943/mycosphere/5/5/2
Ergonul P, Akata I, Kalyoncu F, Ergonul B(2013) Fatty Acid Compositions of Six Wild Edible Mushroom Species. The Scientific World Journal 1-4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/163964
Gangwar R, Ghosh A, Kumar S, Maurya V (2023) Antibacterial, Antioxidant and Nutraceutical potential of New Culinary-Medical Mushroom Russula lakhanpalii(Agaricomycetes) from India. International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms 25(2), 77-85.
Ghosh A, Das K, Buyck B (2021) Two new species in the Russula (Russulaceae, Basidiomycota) crown clade from Indian Himalaya. European Journal of Taxonomy 782, 157-172. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2021.782.1595
Joshi M, Pathania P, Sagar A (2014) Phytochemical. Analysis and In vitro Antibactirial Activity of Russula lepida and Pleurotus ostreatus from North West Himalayas, India. International. Journal of Pharmaceutical and Phytopharmacological Research 6(4), 1032-1034.
Kalita K, Bezbaroa RN, Kumar R, Pandey S (2016). Documentation of wild edible mushrooms from Meghal.aya, Northeast India. Current Research in Environmental & Applied Mycology 6(3), 238-247.
Kiran M, Carbon M, Senko D, Khalid A, Adamcik S (2021). Description of the fifth new Species of Russula subsect. Maculatinae from Pakistan Indicates Local Diversity Hotspot of Ectomycorrhizal Fungi in Southwestern Himalayas Life 11(662), 1-14.
Kirk PM (2014) Species Fungorum In: Species 2000 and IT IS Catalogue of life Science 2000 and ITIS Retrieved. 10-30.
Kirk PM, Canon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008) Dictionary of Fungi. 10th Edition. CABI International, Oxon, UK, 608-609.
Kothiyal. G, Singh K, Kumar A, Juyal. P, Guleri S (2022) Wild macrofungi(Mushrooms) diversity occurrence in the forest of Uttarakhand, India. International Journal of Botanical Studies 7(1), 567-578.
Manoharachary C, Sridhar K, Singh R, Adholeya, Suryanarayanan TS, Rawat S, Johri BN (2005) Fungal Diversity: Distribution, Conservation and Prospecting of Fungi from India. Current Science. 89 (1), 58-71.
Mohanan C (2014) Macrofungal. Diversity in the Western Ghats, Keralas, India: Members of Russulaceae. Journal of Threatened Taxa 6(4), 5636-5648. http://dx.doi.org/10.11609/JoTT. 03620.5636-48
Mukhopadhyay P, Ganguly A, Ghanta R, Mallick SK, Mandal A, Mukherjee SK (2024) A detailed survey on fungal. distribution and characterization under Bankura District, West Bengal., India. Acta Biologica Slovenica 67(2), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.14720/abs.67.2.18621
Panda M, Das S, Mahapatra S, Debata P, Tayung K, Thatol H (2020) Mycochemical. Composition , bioactivities and phylogenetic placement of three wild edible Russula species from Northern Odisha, India. Plant Biosystems – An International Journal Dealing With all aspects of plant Biology, Tylor & Francis. 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1080/11263504.2020.1813829
Popescu M, Culmes M, Gird C (2015) Qualitative and Quantitative Chemical Study of Russula Virescens Mushrooms. Farmacia 63(3), 334-337.
Roze EM (1876) Essai Dune Nouvelle Classification Des Agaricinees. Bulletin de la Societe Mycologique de France. 23,51.
Sarikurkcu C, Djordjevic JP, Solak MH (2020) Wild edible mushrooms from mediterranean region: Metal concentrations and health risk assessment. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoenv.2019.110058
Sarnari M (1998) Monografia illustrate Del Genere Russula in Europe. Tomo Primo Italia. 799pp.
Singha K, Sahoo S, Roy A, Banerjee A, Mondal. KC, Pati BR, Mahapatra PD (2020) Contribution of wild mushrooms in livelihood management of ethnic tribes in Gurguripal, West Bengal, India. International Journal of pharmaceutical Sciences and Research 11(7), 3160-3171. http://dx.doi.org/10.13040/IJPSR.0975-8232
Tapwal. A, Kumar R, Pandey S (2013) Diversity and frequency of macrofungi associated with wet ever green tropical. forest in Assam, India. Biodiversitas 14(2), 73-78. DOI: 10.13057/biodiv/d140204
Thatoi H and Singdevsachan S (2014) Diversity, nutritional composition and medicinal potential of Indian mushrooms: A review. African Journal of Biotechnology 13(4), 523-545 Doi:10.5897/AJB2013.13446
Tian Q, Geng C, Wang H, Ng T (2014) Characterization of polysaccharides with antioxidant and hepatoprotective activities from the wild edible mushroom Russula vinosa Lindblad. Journal of Agricultural and food chemistry 62(35), 8858-8866.
Turkoglu A, Duru M, Mercan N (2007) Antioxidant and Antimicrobial activity of Russula delica Fr: An Edible Wild Mushroom. Eurasian Journal of Analytical. Chemistry 2(1), 55-67
Verma K, Hashmi S, Atri NS, Sharma Y (2019) A checklist of agaricoid Russulaceous mushrooms from Jammu and Kashmir, India. Kavaka 53, 42-47. Doi:10.36460/Kavaka/53/2019/42-47
Verma RK, Pandro V, Pyasi A (2018) Diversoity and Distribution of Russula in India with Reference to central Indian species. International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Science 7(10), 3078-3103. https://doi.org/10.20546/ijcmas.2018.710.359
Wang J, Wang HX, Ng TB (2007) A peptide with HIV-1 reverse transcriptase inhibitory activity from the medicinal mushroom Russula pal.udosa. Peptides 28(3), 560-565.
Downloads
-
Download PDF
Abstract Views: 39, 
Download PDF: 19
Published
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2025 International Journal of Innovative Scientific Research
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
