RESEARCH ON BIOCONVERSION OF LIGNOCELLULOSIC WASTE FOR THE CULTIVATION OF BIOCOMPOUNDS PRODUCING MACROMYCETES.

Macromycetes are a topic of great interest for researchers around the globe and in our country, mushrooms being wellknown for their nutritional, gourmet and medicinal values. In line with current ecological trends, a sustainable solution for environmental protection is to produce mushrooms by bioconversion of some lignocellulosic waste/by-products of agro-forestry origin and therefore to examine the qualitative and quantitative impacts of multiple substrate recipes upon mushroom production. Assiduous research has improved the biotechnologies for the production and propagation of mycelium used for seeding spawn, in parallel with obtaining and characterization of extracts rich in bioactive compounds from both mycelium and fruiting bodies of edible and medicinal species of macromycetes. This review proposes a current presentation of the knowledge at the intersection of these research directions, focusing on their applications, targeting the species of the genus Pleurotus. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]