국내에서 가장 많이 재배되고 있는 버섯은 느타리류로 일반느타리와 큰느타리(새송이) 두 품목이 대부분을 차지한다. 그 중에서 큰느타리는 자동화 시설이 확대되면서 생산량이 크게 증가하였으며, 저장성이 우수하여 수출되는 버섯의 주요 품목 중 하나로 자리잡았다. 그러나, 생산량이 점차 증가하면서 가격이 다소 하락하였고 이에 생산자는 큰느타리를 대체할 수 있는, 소비자는 버섯 시장의 선택의 폭을 넓힐 수 있는 새로운 버섯 품목 개발을 요구해 왔다. 이에 따라, 국립원예특작과학원에서는 중국 등 아시아 에서 맛과 향이 우수하여 고품질로 생산되고 있는 백령느 타리와 아위느타리를 종간교잡하여 ‘크리미’라는 품종을 개발하였다. 기존에 육성된 품종 및 수집된 유전자원을 재배하여 형태적 특성검정을 하였고, 아위느타리 품종 ‘비산2 호(KMCC00430)’ 와 백령느타리 유전자원 ‘KMCC00461’ 을 모본으로 선발한 뒤 각 모본으로부터 단포자를 분리하여 mono-mono 교잡하였다. 약 1,000 조합의 교잡을 하였 고, 그 중 73계통이 교잡이 확인되어 재배시험 및 자실체 특성조사를 수행하였다. 그 중 갓이 밝은 연백색이며 대가 굵고 곧아 품질이 우수한 ‘7773’ 계통을 최종선발하였고 ‘크리미’라고 명명하였다. ‘크리미’의 균사생장 적온은 25~30 ̊C이고, 자실체 생육온도는 16 ̊C이다. 농가에서 대량생산시험 후 현장평가회 및 시식회를 개최해 본 결과, ‘크리미’의 수량이 대조구 ‘백황’보다 약 5% 증수되었고, 기존 아위느타리 품종 ‘비산2호’에 비해 식감과 맛이 더 우수하며, 아위x백령느타리 품종 ‘백황’보다 자실체 형태 가 더 우수하여 고품질로 판매가 가능할 것이라는 평가를 얻었다. 큰느타리와 다르게 밝은 연백색인 갓을 가졌으며, 식감과 향이 더 우수한 아위x백령느타리 신품종 ‘크리미’가 앞으로 버섯 농가의 새로운 소득 창출과 버섯 시장의 품목 다변화에 이바지할 것을 기대해 본다.

팽이의 신품종을 개발하기 위하여 모균주 ASI 4103과 4111으로부터 포자를 수집하여 단핵균주를 얻고 이들의 교잡을 통해서 꺽쇠연결체가 확인된 교잡주 총 36점을 선발하였다. 교잡주를 대상으로 3회에 걸쳐 재배시험 결과, 수량이 우수하고 생육후기에도 갓이 피지 않는 황금색 우량계통 ‘Fv15a31’을 최종선발하였으며, 생산력검정 시험을 통해 2018년에 농작물 직무육성 품종 심의회를 통과했고 2019년에 ’아람‘이란 명칭으로 출원하였다. 주요특성은 갓 색깔이 황금색이고 대는 연한갈색이며, 갓 모양은 안으로 더 말린 반구형으로 대조품종과 형태적으로 차이를 보인다. 균사배양 최적온도는 25oC이며, 대조품종에 비해 여러 온도범위에서 아람의 균사력이 우수하였다. 또한 자실체 수량은 병당(1,100 ml) 237.7±9.54g으로 대조 품종보다 높았고 버섯발생이 2일 빨랐다. 갓에 반점이 없어 외관상 대조품종보다 품질이 우수하였다. 대치배양과 유전적 다형성 검정 결과, 아람이 다른 갈색 및 백색품종들과 유전적으로 구별되는 것을 확인하였다.

본 연구에서는 한국에서 개발한 23개의 양송이 품종과 42개의 도입품종의 유전적 다양성과 집단 구조를 SSR 마커를 이용하여 분석하였다. 양송이 품종의 NA는 약 13, HO는 약 0.59, HE는 약 0.74, PIC값은 약 0.71 이었다. 양송이 품종은 군집분석에 의하여 3개의 Group으로 구분되 었고 다양한 국가의 품종으로 구성된 Group2의 다양성이 높았으며, 구조분석에 의하여 2개의 subpopulation으로 구분되었고, 품종의 수가 많은 Pop2의 다양성이 높았다. 한국의 양송이 품종들은 주로 Group 3에 분포하고, subpopulation 간 분포에는 큰 차이를 보이지 않았다. 본 연구의 결과는 양송이의 육종소재의 개발, 다양성 확보 등과 같은 품종의 개발과정에 이용될 수 있을 것이다.

갈색양송이는 백색양송이보다 병에 강하고 재배관리가 쉬워 농가에서 재배를 하고 싶지만, 아직 국내 소비자들의 인식이 부족하여 일부 친환경 농가에서만 재배를 하고 있는 실정이다. 이에 갈색양송이에 대한 1분정도의 동영상으로 사전 정보를 준 후 인지도와 선호도를 SNS로 설문조사를 실시하였고, 설문 응답자의 200명을 임의로 선정하여 식미평가를 진행하였다. 설문 응답자의 83%가 갈색양송이를 접한 적이 없다고 했으며, 동영상으로 정보를 접한 후 98%가 ‘맛에 대한 호기심’(44%)의 이유로 구매 의사를 밝혔다. 식미평가에서는 갈색양송이가 32%가 ‘맛있다’, 31%가 ‘식감이 좋다’, 28%가 ‘향이 좋다’로 응답 하였다. 또한 섭취 후에 95%가 갈색 양송이 구매를 원하는 것으로 확인되었다. 이 결과로 갈색양송이에 대한 대중적 인식, 선호, 식미와 버섯에 영양성분과 기능성에 대한 정보가 소비로 이루어 진다는 것을 확인하였다.

팽이의 신품종을 개발하기 위하여 모균주 ASI 4216(한솔)과 4217(백중)으로부터 단포자를 분리하여 단핵균주를 얻고 이들의 교잡을 통해서 꺽쇠연결체가 확인된 교잡주 총 129점을 선발하였다. 교잡주를 대상으로 3회에 걸쳐 재배시험 결과, 고온에서 배양이 가능하며 수량성이 우수한 계통 ‘Fv14a51’을 최종선발되었으며, 생산력검정 시험을 통해 2017년 농작물 직무육성 품종 심의회에서 ‘백이’로 명명되었다. 주요 특성은 균사생장이 30°C의 고온에서도 균활력을 유지할 정도로 강한 온도적응성 품종이고 대조품종에 비해 갓이 두껍고 대가 얇는 형태를 띠는 것 외에는 갓색깔이 순백색이며, 갓모영은 반구형, 수량은 257.4±13.5g으로 대조품종과 비교해서 대체적으로 유사 하였다. RAPD primer을 통해 유전적 다형성을 검정한 결과, 대조구인 ‘오키노메구미’, 2016년에 육성된 ‘백승’과 신품종이 유전적으로 구별되는 것을 확인하였다. 전반적으로 ‘백이’는 수량과 품질이 외국품종과 거의 유사하였으며, 버섯의 균일한 형태로 상업적 가치가 있었다. 신품종의 현장실증을 확대하여 국산품종이 국내에 확산되기를 기대한다.

양송이는 전 세계적으로 가장 많이 재배하는 버섯으로 특용작물생산실적의 2016년 통계자료에 의하면 국내 생산량은 10,173톤, 국내 생산액은 590억원이다. 현재 10개의 품종이 개발되었지만, 농업인들은 계속적으로 품질이 우수한 버섯 신품종을 요구하고 있다. 이에 우량계통을 육성하기 위해 수집된 170개의 유전자원 중에서 KMCC00754와 KMCC00775은 모균주로 선발되었다. 그리고 KMCC00754에서 120점의 단포자에서 동형핵균주로 추정되는 균주를 25점 선발하였고, KMCC00775에서는 120점의 단포자에서 6점을 AbSSR45마커를 가지고 각각 선발하였다. 이 동형핵균주로 교잡주를 육성하여 다시 SSR마커로 분석하였다. 그 결과 50%의 교잡율로 150점의 교잡주에서 74점이 교잡된 것을 확인하였으며, 이 균주들을 3회 재배하고 특성을 평가하였다. 최종적으로 Abs2-2015-16을 우량계통으로 선발하여 2017년에 신품종 ‘도담’이 육성되었다.

The global mushroom industry has grown rapidly in recent years in terms of beneficial effects, market value, and demand. India has a wide range of agro-climatic conditions and is largely an agricultural country with a cultivated area of about 4.37 %, generating about 620 million tons of agro waste annually. Mushroom cultivation not only helps recycle agro wastes, but also fills the nutritional gap prevalent among a large population of India. Recently, government industrial policy and creative innovation has promoted research and other endeavors aiming towards the cultivation of mushrooms. Mushroom cultivation in India was initiated in Solan, in the mid-sixties. Mushroom cultivation has been successful in temperate regions of the Himalayas, the Western Ghats, and the hills of northeast India. Recently, many unemployed people have begun to adopt mushroom cultivation as a means of self-employment. It is high time that Indian mushroom cultivators and consumers became aware of the nutritional and medicinal values of cultivated and wild species of mushrooms. The total mushroom production in India between 2010 and 2017 was approximately 0.13 million tons, accounting for a 4.3% increase in the average growth rate of mushrooms per annum. In particular, the total production of white button mushrooms is the highest, with a share of about 73% of total mushroom production. In this review article, we have analyzed the current scenario of the Indian mushroom industry and its contribution to the economic growth of the country.

Hypsizygus marmoreus is a mushroom with abundant flavor and medicinal properties. However, its application is limited by problems such as long cultivation period, low biological efficiency, and microbiological contamination; therefore, there is a substantial need for development of new cultivars of this species. In this study, 55 strains of H. marmoreus were subjected to inter simple sequence repeat (ISSR) analysis to identify markers for the selection of mother strains for breeding from the collected germplasm. ISSR 13 and 15 were confirmed as polymorphic markers. The three strains (KMCC03106, KMCC03107, and KMCC03108) with white cap color were found to be genetically closely related upon UPGMA analysis of both ISSR 13 and 15. Based on the PCR analysis results for ISSR 15, the collected germplasm were differentiated into three groups according to the strain collection year. Thus, ISSR 15 could be a marker for determining the phylogeny of cap color and genetic variations according to the strain collection year. These results suggest that ISSR markers can be effective tools for the selection of mother strains for breeding of H. marmoreus.

Flammulina velutipes belonging to white rot fungi is one of the commercially important edible mushrooms and is produced in large quantities due to the introduction of a automated and mechanized cultivation system in Korea. Despite the chief item of export among edible mushrooms, Flammulina velutipes has the lowest distribution rate of domestic cultivar, estimated that about 20 percent. As the result that most white cultivars of Flammulina velutipes produced and exported in Korea were introduced from Japan, farmers pay a large amount of royalties. Therefore, we try to develop a new pure domestic cultivars as a substitute for Japanese cultivars. To breed both white and gold superior strains, we selected the crossing mother groups including 10 white strains of ASI 4198 etc. and 7 brown strains of ASI 4049 etc. and mated each of the 17 strains by mon-mon hybridization. 19 white and 14 brown strains were chosen through two selection experiment over 2014 2016. In the third selection experiment this year, we finally selected one white(Fv 16 c 37) and the other gold(Fv 15 a 31) strain. Two selected strains were cultivated in the same environmental conditions. Spawn running period on the sawdust substrate required 30days at 20°C. The cultivation period and optimum temperature were 12±1 days at 14°C for primordia formation, 5 days at 4°C for inhibition phase, and 14±1 days at 7°C for fruiting body development. The length of pilei and stipes in two selected strains and Megumi as a control Japanese cultivar harvested in optimal stage was as follows: 10.5±0.81mm and 139.7±4.23mm in Fv 16 c 37, 10.8±0.43mm and 128..2±7.31mm in Fv 15 a 31, and 10.9±0.41mm and 141.8±4.64mm in Megumi respectively. The Yield of Fv 16 c 37, Fv 15 a 31 and Megumi was 271.2±11.84g, 237.7±9.05g and 270.7±16.87g per 1100ml in bottle cultivation.

Volvariella volvacea is mainly cultivated in subtropics area like South-East Asia. Because it is cultivated in rice straws, it is called a straw mushroom. That mushroom grows well in high temperature about 30~38°C and high humidity. Straw mushroom is a homothallic mushroom, so it is difficult to identify whether the offspring is different from the parents. This study was carried out to investigate RAPD primers that can be used for identification the DNA polymorphism of Volvariella volvacea genetic resources. 9 strains were collected from various countries like China, Vietnam etc. When ITS regions of their DNA were analyzed, they proved to be Volvariella volvacea. A cultivation test was conducted to measure the morphological characteristics of them 2 strains, KMCC04380 and KMCC04382 were selected for breeding resources because the mycelium of them grew well on medium and fruiting bodies were formed quickly. The Universal PCR Fingerprinting kits(UPF primers) were used to confirm the genetic polymorphisms of the 2 strains. As a result of confirming the DNA bands, 2 of 12 primers could be used to genetically distinguish 2 strains. About 50 spores were isolated from their fruiting bodies respectively and they also will be confirmed DNA polymorphisms by using UPF primers.

H. mamoreus is a mushroom with abundant favor and medicinal use. However, its cultivation has problems such as the long cultivation period, low biological efficiency and microbiological contamination, so new cultivars should be developed. In this study, 55 strains of H.marmoreus were analyzed with ISSR markers to identify precise genetic information in collected germplasm as mother strains in breeding. ISSR 13 and 15 markers were confirmed polymorphism. The three strains (KMC03106, KMC03107, and KMC03108) with white cap color were close genetic relationship in the UPGMA analysis of both the ISSR 13 and 15 markers. Especially in the PCR result of the ISSR 15, the collected germplasm were differentiated to three groups following collecting year. As these results, the ISSR 15 marker would be able to classify the phylogeny of cap color and genetic variation along the collecting year. Therefore ISSR markers will confer effective selection of mother strains for breeding of H. mamoreus.

We experimented to see if the tolerance of Agaricus bisporus to Pseudomonas sp. causing the bacterial brown blotch disease which is causing great damage in the button mushroom cultivation was inherited. There was no correlation between mycelial growth rate and mushroom tolerance to pathogens at each temperature. In the mycelial stage, the strains tolerance to Pseudomonas sp. were not as strong as those of their parents, but they were generally stronger or more tolerance than those of weaker strain (ASI1321). In fruiting body, tolerance was decreased compared to mycelial. In fruiting body, later generations of two strains had similar tolerance, unlike strong or weak tolerance of parental generation. Therefore, browning of fruit body is thought to be caused not only by tolerance but also by various other factors. Especially, the future generation of the strains which were tolerance to Pseudomonas sp. were very weak in the mycelial stage, indicating that the tolerance of the parental generation was inherited to the later generations. The damage of each pathogen was different in mycelium and fruiting body. P. tolaasii caused higher browning than P. agarici in fruit body. P. reactans did not have a significant effect on the mycelium but affected the browning of the fruit bodies. P. agarici had higher mycelial growth inhibitory ability than fruiting body.

In Korea, oyster mushroom is one of the commonly cultivated mushrooms. In 2013, the cultivation areas and products of oyster mushrooms were 60,039 M/T and 201 ha, respectively. Many species of oyster mushrooms are cultivated in various countries. These include Pleurotus ostreatus, P. florida, P. sajor-caju, P. eryngii, P. citrinopileatus, P. salmoneostramineus and P. cystidiosus. P. citrinopileatus is a yellow oyster mushroom famous for its health benefits such as anti-cancer and anti-oxidant effects. Therefore, a cultivar P. citrinopileatus ‘Jangdari’ was developed to improve yield and the ability to grow well at lower temperatures. Two parent strains ‘Gumbit (KMCC02150)’ and ‘KMCC02145’ were selected based on their morphological characteristics. ‘Jangdari’ was developed by the method of Mon-Mon crossing between monokaryons derived from ‘Gumbit’ and ‘KMCC02145’, and finally selected through continuous cultivation tests. The optimum temperature for mycelial growth was 30oC. The cultivar could grow well at high temperatures, especially 16~24oC. Fruiting body production per bottle (850 mL) was about 90.0 g. Stipe length and thickness of ‘Jangdari’ were similar to those of ‘Gumbit’. ‘Jangdari’ was more resistant to low temperature than ‘Gumbit’, and thus it could be cultivated with oyster mushrooms (P. ostreatus). In addition, while cultivating ‘Jangdari’, it is not required to scrape out the upper side of bottle’s sawdust medium; hence, its cultivation is expected to save energy and time.

‘Baekseung’, a new variety of Flammulina velutipes, was bred by mating two monokaryotic strains isolated from KMCC 4210 and KMCC 4216 in Mushroom Research Division, Baekseung ARES in 2016. Baekseung showed fast mycelial growth and high mycelial density on MEA (Malt Extract Agar) media for 7days of incubation. Spawn running period on the sawdust substrate required 30days at 25°C. The cultivation period and optimum temperature were 11±1 days at 14°C for primordia formation and 14±1 days at 7°C for fruiting body development. The length of pilei and stipes in Baekseung harvested in optimal stage exhibited 11.3±0.4㎜ and 89.2±7.1㎜ and Megumi harvested in optimal stage showed 8.2±1.0㎜ and 95.9±5.0㎜ respectively. Yield of Baekseung and Megumi strain grown of sawdust substrate was 153.7±12.5g and 150.5±29.7g per 850ml in bottle cultivation. The inferred tree exhibited the difference of phylogenetic relationship between the Korean white fruiting body strains such as Baekseung, Uri1ho, Fv-14-a-38, and Fv-14-a-51 and the Japanese white fruiting body strain Megumi.

Microsatellite SSR markers were developed and utilized to reveal the genetic diversity of 32 strains of Flammulina velutipes collected in Korea, China, and Japan. From SSR-enriched library, 490 white colonies were randomly selected and sequenced. In the 490 sequenced clones, 85 clones (17.35%) were redundant. Among the remaining 405 unique clones, 201 clones (49.6%) contained microsatellite sequences. As a result, 12 primer pairs produced reproducible polymorphic bands within diverse 4 strains and these selected markers were further characterized in 32 Flammulina velutipes strains. A total of 34 alleles were detected using the 12 markers, with an average of 3.42 alleles and the number of alleles ranged from two to seven per locus. The major allele frequency ranged from 0.42 (GB-FV-127) to 0.98 (GB-FV-166), and values for observed (HO) and expected (HE) heterozygosity ranged from 0.00 to 0.94 (mean = 0.18) and from 0.03 to 0.67 (mean = 0.32), respectively. SSR loci amplified with GB-FV-127 markers gave the highest polymorphism information content (PIC) of 0.61 and mean allele number of five, while for loci amplified with GB-FV-166 markers these values were the lowest, namely 0.03 and two. The mean PIC value (0.29) observed in the present study with average number of alleles (3.42). The genetic relationships among 32 Flammulina velutipes strains based on SSR data were generated by UPGMA cluster analysis. In conclusion, we succeeded in developing 12 polymorphic SSRs markers from SSR-enriched library of Flammulina velutipes. These SSRs are presently being used for phylogenic analysis and evaluation of genetic variations. In future, these SSR markers will be used in clarifying taxonomic relationships among the Flammulina velutipes.