Journal of Mycology
Volume 2016 (2016), Article ID 7654123, 18 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/7654123
Review Article
Diversity of Mushrooms and Their Metabolites of Nutraceutical and Therapeutic Significance
Department of Microbiology, Panjab University, Chandigarh 160014, India
Received 31 August 2015; Accepted 5 November 2015
Academic Editor: Praveen Rao Juvvadi
Copyright © 2016 Deepak K. Rahi and Deepika Malik. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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