ORESHILE YETUNDE KHADIJAT

Botany

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Topic: Mycology

Description: Mushroom biology and biotechnologyMushroom Biotechnogy deals with the discovery of new mushrooms, domestication of newly discovered as well as other wild mushrooms, enhancement in the production of fruit bodies, increase in nutritional and medicinal properties and applications in mitigating the environmental pollution and providing low cost, viable, multipurpose technology to farmers to meet the growing demand of food, feed, fertilizer and energy.EthnomycologyThe cultural significance and historical uses of macro-fungi mushrooms in human life.

#	Certificate	School	Year
1.	M.Sc (Mycology/ Plant Pathology)	Department of Botany, University of Lagos.	2020

The Phytochemical analysis of methanol extracts of five mushrooms collected from Lagos State University, Ojo Campus.

Mushrooms are fleshy fruiting bodies of some fungi which have high nutritional values. The study investigated the mineral composition and phytochemical contents of five different mushrooms which are Pleurotus ostreatus, Ganoderma tsugae , Macrolepiota procera , Trametes betulina and Trametes gibbosa collected from the wild, Lagos state university, Ojo, Lagos Nigeria. The mineral analysis of the mushroom samples were analyzed using a Microplasma Atomic Emission Spectrophotometer. Extraction was done using methanol for the mushroom samples. Standard tests were carried out to detect the quality and quantity of phytochemicals present in the methanol extracts of the mushrooms. The phytochemical analysis of the mushroom samples were analyzed using a Spectrophotometer. The result of the mineral analysis revealed that Pleurotus ostreatus exhibited the highest potassium content and also had the least sodium content than the rest of the other minerals. Macrolepiota procera had the highest content of calcium and phosphorus respectively, while Trametes gibbosa had the least magnesium and phosphorus content respectively. The phytochemical analysis revealed that the methanol extract of Pleurotus ostreatus contained more flavonoids, tannins, and terpenes respectively and the least values of these minerals was recorded in the methanol extract of Macrolepiota procera. The nutritional value of the mushroom species studied here could potentially be used in a well-balanced diet and as sources of bioactive compounds of medicinal mushrooms for their pharmacological use.

ORESHILE KHADIJAT is a Assistant Lecturer at the Department of Botany

ORESHILE has a M.Sc in Mycology/ Plant Pathology from Department of Botany, University of Lagos.