Macrofungi from KME Society's Educational Campus in Bhiwandi
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International Journal of Life Sciences Special Issue A 9: January 2018 International Peer Reviewed Open Access Refereed Journal UGC Approved Journal No 48951 Original Article Open Access Macrofungi from KME Society’s educational campus in Bhiwandi, dist. Thane Maharashtra and their associated Myco-technologies Moses Kolet1*, Asba Ansari2, Ayesha Divkar2 and Ayesha Momin2 1Principal and Head, Dept. of Botany, KME Society’s G.M. Momin Women’s College, Bhiwandi, Dist. Thane, Maharashtra, India 2Dept. of Botany, KME Society’s G.M. Momin Women’s College *Email: [email protected] Manuscript details: ABSTRACT Available online on Macrofungi, especially mushrooms; their wide variations in http://www.ijlsci.in morphological characteristics have fascinated all; mycologists and laymen alike. Mushrooms, owing to their secretive life, have been ISSN: 2320-964X (Online) associated with several animals, fictitious creatures, mysterious ISSN: 2320-7817 (Print) entities, super natural beings and happenings through the ages which Editor: Dr. Arvind Chavhan are also reflected in their vernacular names. These small, apparently insignificant components of biodiversity play an important role as Cite this article as: food, dietary supplements, therapeutics, sources of drugs, Moses Kolet, Asba Ansari, Ayesha pharmaceuticals and novel compounds; in modern scientific research, Divkar and Ayesha Momin (2018) biodegradation and bioremediation. In the present study, macrofungi Macrofungi from KME Society’s from KME Society’s G.M. Momin Women’s College campus in educational campus in Bhiwandi, dist. Bhiwandi were documented by the survey method. The study recorded Thane Maharashtra and their 17 types of macrofungi inclusive of several mushrooms; prominent associated Myco-technologies, Int. J. of. among them being the genera Auricularia, Daldinea, Trametes, Mycena, Life Sciences, Special Issue, A9: 25—30. and Schizophyllum among several others, details of which, and the current and emerging mycotechnologies associated with the types Copyright: © Author, This is an open recorded, are mentioned in the paper. access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non- Key Words: biodiversity, mushrooms, macrofungi, Bhiwandi. Commercial - No Derives License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non- commercial and no modifications or INTRODUCTION adaptations are made. The word fungus was long ago used to denote mushrooms, following which, its colloquial usage expanded to include other related groups such as molds, polypores, puff balls and many others. The wide variations in colours, shades, sizes, shapes and other morphological characteristics exhibited by macrofungi, particularly mushrooms, accompanied with the mysterious and extremely secretive status National Conference on “Emerging Trends in Mycotechnology” (NCETM-2018) | 25 Moses et al., 2018 attached to their way of life; the mystifying awareness on the presence of these small but appearance and disappearance of fruiting bodies, nevertheless important entities in the area of study have always fascinated all; laymen and experts alike. and the current and emerging mycotechnologies Through the ages, in all civilizations, mushrooms have associated with them. been associated with animals, superstitions and related entities, supernatural and mysterious entities, fairy tales, mythology and folk legends. Their MATERIALS AND METHODS vernacular names bear testimony to such mysterious associations, as well as their morphology, habitat and The study was carried out by the survey method, for several other associative characteristics. collection and documentation of data during the monsoon and post-monsoon season from June to The dietary value of mushrooms is well documented November 2017; wherein a survey of macrofungi was (Bahl, 1998, Feeney et al., 2014). Cultivation of edible carried out in the area of study. The five locations of mushrooms has always attracted research attention study in the campus were the gardens adjoining main and the trends are also visible in remote areas, as an building of the G.M. Momin Women’s College answer to dietary deficiencies (Sharma and Thakur, (Location no. 1), area adjoining extension building of 2010; Valverde et al., 2015). Amongst the several other the college (location no. 2), area adjoining staff uses of mushrooms and macro fungi are their quarters (location no. 3), lumber and timber storage utilization as sources of therapeutic and anti-cancer area adjoining KME Society’s College of Education agents (Patel and Goyal, 2012; Sharma et al., 2017), building (location no. 4) and area adjoining KME neutraceuticals (Rathore et al., 2017), novel bioactive Society office building (location no. 5). The specimens compounds (Chatterjee and Patel, 2017); in were identified in the field and in the department of biotransformation and bioremediation (Raj et al., botany, G. M. Momin Women’s College, using 2011), as dyes (Bessette and Bessette, 2001), in dye standard literature (Bakshi, 1971; Lawrence and sensitized solar cells (Zalas et al., 2015) and several Harniess, 1991; Keizer, 1997; Polese, 2000) and aspects of modern scientific research. In spite of their techniques suggested by Buczacki (1992) and Kaul utilitarian aspects, literature on macrofungi from the (1999). mega city of Mumbai is scarce and scattered and there are practically no reports of this component of biodiversity from Bhiwandi region, adjoining RESULTS AND DISCUSSION Mumbai. Hence the current investigation was undertaken to study and document mushrooms and A total of 17 types of macrofungi, comprising 15 macrofungi from KME Society’s campus and G.M. genera, were recorded during the investigation. Momin Women’s College campus in Bhiwandi city. Amongst the fungi recorded, 2 forms comprising 2 genera belonged to Ascomycetes, while 15 forms The area of study viz. G.M.Momin Women’s College, comprising 13 genera were attributed to popular amongst locals as G.M. college or Rais High Basidiomycetes. The findings are presented in Table 1. School campus is a 6.5 acre campus situated in the Forms such as Auricularia auricula, Daldinea concentrica, Kaneri area of Bhiwandi city, Dist. Thane near Trametes, Mycena, Schizophyllum commune and Mumbai, the commercial capital of India. Apart from Schizophyllum sp. were prominently represented, albeit housing some of the best schools and colleges in at their respective site locations. The forms Bhiwandi, the campus, developed since 1927 on encountered were found to be in most of the cases, agricultural plots which were originally paddy fields, limited to their respective location and generally did also sports a reasonably rich biodiversity of not overlap with other locations of study, most vegetation. Various mushrooms and macrofungi probably owing to the typical and characteristic appear on the educational campus, especially during circumstantial conditions prevalent at every location. the monsoon season, which prompted the present While location no. 1 showed conditions characteristic study. The study was also undertaken to spread of gardens, with soil rich in organic matter, the others 26 | NCETM -2018 Int. J. of Life Sciences, Special issue, A9; January, 2018 National Conference on “Emerging Trends in Mycotechnology”- (NCETM-2018) were dry in comparison. Location no. 2 and 3 were From among the macrofungal forms reported herein, characterized by few uprooted dead trees, tree stumps Daldinia concentrica is well documented as a wood and logs of wood; location no. 4 was characterized by decay fungus (Hiscox and Boddy, 2017); has conditions typical of a dry timber depot, while applications in traditional medicines and location no. 5 revealed dry garden-like conditions ethnomycology (Akpaja et al., 2005), yields secondary with some dead tree stumps. The findings on metabolites with anti-HIV (Qin et al., 2006), biodiversity of macrofungi are in agreement with nematicidal (Anke et al., 1995), phytotoxic (Lee et al., those of Todawat and Papdiwal (2012) and Kumar et 2006), antimicrobial (Shen et al., 2017) activities and is al. (2015). Mushrooms such as Coenocybe tenera, known for its health benefits (Karun et al., 2017). Psilocybe sp. and Mycena sps. were common during Hypoxylon has been successfully exploited for rains on the garden soil freshly amended with metabolites exhibiting anti-bacterial and anti-fungal cowdung manure; the latter, most probably being activity (Yuyama et al., 2017). Widely believed to be their source of origin. Many of the macrofungal forms the earliest cultivated fungus for food (Royse, 2014), recorded in the current investigation had remarkable Auricularia auricula has been in the lime light for its abilities related to wood rotting and biodegradation of antioxidant and antimicrobial activities (Yu and Oh, agro-industrial wastes, dietary value, production of 2016), hypoglycemic (Yuan et al, 1998) and therapeutic bioactive compounds of medicinal importance (Zhang properties (Lu et al., 2018), dietary aspects (Misaki and et al, 2016; Kinge et al, 2017), and are cultivated in Kakuta, 1995; Vallee et al, 2017), novel cultivation different parts of the world for their valued products practices (Onyango et al., 2011), molecular aspects (Du (Zervakis and Koutrotsios, 2017). et al., 2016), commercial food value (Zou, et al., 2017) and mycoremediation potential (Song et al., 2017). Table 1: Macrofungi recorded on KME Society’s Educational Campus, Bhiwandi S. Botanical Name Common