Section I - INTRODUCTIONChapter 1 - SETTING THE SCENE
Section II - BIODIVERSITY AND CULTIVATIONChapter 2 - EDIBLE ECTOMYCORRHIZAL FUNGI AND THEIR CULTIVATION IN CHINA
Chapter 3 - CLIMATE CHANGE, BIOTECHNOLOGY AND NEOTROPICAL EDIBLE ECTOMYCORRHIZAL MUSHROOMS
Chapter 4 - DIVERSITY AND IMPORTANCE OF THE ECTOMYCORRHIZAL FUNGI IN GUATEMALA
Chapter 5 - ADVANCES IN THE CULTIVATION OF SAFFRON MILK CAP IN NEW ZEALAND
Chapter 6 - EDIBLE MUSHROOMS AND THEIR CULTURAL IMPORTANCE IN YUNNAN, CHINA
Chapter 7 - ADVANCES ON THE MYCORRHIZATION AND CULTIVATION OF DESERT TRUFFLES

Section III - CASE STUDIESChapter 8 - DIVERSITY, BIOGEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION, ECOLOGY AND ECTOMYCORRHIZAL RELATIONSHIPS OF PORCINI MUSHROOMS (BOLETUS S. STR., BOLETACEAE) WORLDWIDE: STATE OF THE ART AND AN ANNOTATED CHECK-LIST
Chapter 9 - RECENT INSIGHTS IN THE PHYLOGENY, SPECIES DIVERSITY AND CULINARY USES OF MILKCAP GENERA LACTARIUS AND LACTIFLUUS
Chapter 10 - ADVANCES IN THE CULTIVATION OF TRUFFLES IN CANADA
Chapter 11 - DIVERSITY AND ECOLOGY OF WILD EDIBLE MUSHROOMS FROM NATIVE FORESTS OF PATAGONIA, ARGENTINA
Section IV - SOCIO-ECONOMICAL AND CULTURAL IMPORTANCE
Chapter 12 - TRUFFLE CULTIVATION IN THE SOUTH OF FRANCE:
SOCIO-ECONOMIC CHARACTERISTICSChapter 13 - ETHNOMYCOLOGY IN EUROPE: THE PAST, THE PRESENT, AND THE FUTURE

Section V - ECOLOGY WITH EMPHASIS ON WILD EDIBLE FUNGIChapter 14 - INTERACTIONS BETWEEN SOIL MESOFAUNA AND EDIBLE ECTOMYCORRHIZAL FUNGI
Chapter 15 - DIVERSITY AND COMMUNITY STRUCTURE OF ECTOMYCORRHIZAL FUNGI FROM MEXICAN NEOTROPICS, WITH NOTES ON EDIBLE MUSHROOMS
Chapter 16 - A LIST OF ECTOMYCORRHIZAL MUSHROOMS ASSOCIATED WITH QUERCUS HUMBOLDTII IN COLOMBIA
Chapter 17 - MODIFICATIONS OF COMMUNITY STRUCTURE IN ECTOMYCORRHIZAL ARTIC FUNGI AS A CONSEQUENCE OF GLOBAL WARMING

About the Author: Jesus Pérez Moreno is a Professor at Colegio de Postgraduados, Mexico, with a PhD from the University of Sheffield, England. He has delivered lectures in Canada, China, Colombia, Ecuador, England, France, Guatemala, Japan, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Spain, Thailand and Sri Lanka; his articles have been cited 2,700 times by researchers from 55 countries. Author of 15 books and 23 book chapters; supervisor of 50 MSc and PhDs and invited Professor at the University of Sheffield and at the Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He has studied during 30 years the relationship between mushrooms and humans focusing on sustainable development, poverty alleviation, food security and mitigation of climate change.
Alexis Guerin-Laguette is a Senior Scientist at The New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Ltd focusing on edible mycorrhizal fungi (EMF). He has worked in France, Japan and Canada. His passion for EMF stems from his PhD on Lactarius deliciosus and postdoc on Tricholoma matsutake. In New Zealand, he extended his activities to truffles. He is the Technical Representative for the NZ Truffle Association and since 2015, has collaborated with the Kunming Institute of Botany, CAS. He has authored over 20 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. He is the Secretary of the International Workshop on Edible Mycorrhizal Mushrooms.
Roberto Flores Arzú is a Professor at the Universidad de San Carlos, Guatemala with a PhD from the University of Murcia, Spain. He has been a visiting scholar at IRTA in Barcelona; Universities of Tlaxcala, Mexico; Bologna, Pavia, and Cagliari in Italy. He has published papers on the macrofungi of Guatemala and the description and synthesis of ectomycorrhizae of Neotropical trees. His current research, in collaboration with scientists from China, Italy, Mexico and Japan, focuses on macrofungal taxonomy, ectomycorrhizae and ethnomycology.
Yu Fu-Qiang is an Associate Professor and Director of the General Office at the Kunming Institute of Botany, CAS. He was a visiting scholar at the Department of Botany, Chicago. His research focuses on the diversity, management and cultivation of hypogeous fungi and highly-prized ectomycorrhizal fungi, and he leads a group hosting scholars from New Zealand, Japan, United States, Mexico and Spain. He has published over 20 papers and authored 4 patents on the cultivation and management of high-prized mushrooms.