Pleurotus
"Pleurotus" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A genus of basidiomycetous fungi, family POLYPORACEAE, order POLYPORALES, that grows on logs or tree stumps in shelflike layers. The species P. ostreatus, the oyster mushroom, is a choice edible species and is the most frequently encountered member of the genus in eastern North America. (Alexopoulos et al., Introductory Mycology, 4th ed, p531)
| Descriptor ID |
D020076
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.300.179.100.650
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| Concept/Terms |
Oyster Mushrooms- Oyster Mushrooms
- Mushroom, Oyster
- Mushrooms, Oyster
- Oyster Mushroom
- Pleurotus ostreatus
- ostreatus, Pleurotus
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| 2021 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Pleurotus" by people in Profiles over the past ten years.
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La Rosa A, Cornara L, Saitta A, Salam AM, Grammatico S, Caputo M, La Mantia T, Quave CL. Ethnobotany of the Aegadian Islands: safeguarding biocultural refugia in the Mediterranean. J Ethnobiol Ethnomed. 2021 Jul 28; 17(1):47.