Table 6.2
(continued)
Species
Medicinal
properties
Active principles or extracts
Source
Tuber indicum
Cooke &
Massee
Antioxidant
Ergosterol, phenolic compounds, and
polysaccharides extracted from sporomes
Villares et al. (2012);
Luo et al. (2011a)
Potential precursor
of steroid
hormones
Steroidal glucoside
Jinming et al. (2001)
Tuber sinense
X.L. Mao
Antioxidant
Water- and alkali-soluble polysaccharides extracted
from sporomes
Zhao et al. (2012b)
Immunomodulatory Polysaccharides extracted from sporomes showed a
significant increase of macrophage phagocytosis
Zhao et al. (2012a)
Verpa conica
(O.F. Müll.)
Sw.
Antioxidant
Tocopherols (a-tocopherol), and b-carotene
Elmastas et al. (2007)
Species nomenclature is based in Index fungorum (2013); edibility is based mainly in Boa (2004) or in more recent information from the specific cited
references; and the ectomycorrhizal status of the fungal species is based in Rinaldi et al. (2008) and Comandini et al. (2012)
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