Mushrooms

Plant Research International is your partner for innovations in mushroom cultivation

The world around you is changing. Continuous innovation is required to keep a leading position. PRI Mushrooms supports the mushroom sector with applied and strategic research throughout the production chain as a whole.

We are not only in close contact with the sector but also have an extensive network consisting of authorities, consumer organizations, and other knowledge organizations.

PRI Mushrooms has at its disposal excellent facilities such as laboratories and experimental cultivation facilities. And we are perfectly placed in the Wageningen UR organization. This means that we can very easily approach the best experts for subjects not directly covered by our own expertise.

For the identification of research questions that arise in practice and to ensure a proper implementation of our research results in practice we have entered into a strategic alliance with the DLV Plant (Cpoint) extension service.

Strategic network
PRI Mushrooms plays an important role in stimulating strategic research, in Wageningen UR but also in other research organizations. Examples are the projects funded by STW (Stichting Technologie en Wetenschap) which are carried out at the Department Microbiology of Utrecht University:

• Biocontrol of Verticillium
• Genes involved in pinning
• Scientific substantiation health promoting effects of substances in mushrooms (in cooperation with the Chair Group Human Nutrition University of Maastricht)

PRI Mushrooms is also one of the participants in the sequencing of the genome of the button mushroom (Agaricus bisporus) carried out by JGI.

PRI Mushrooms is also discussion partner in organizations involved in mushrooms, nationally as well as internationally. PRI Mushrooms is, e.g., represented in the ISMS.

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