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Local knowledge of wild mushroom uses in the Mazovia region

2015/17/N/NZ9/00963

Keywords:

ethnomycology Mazovia traditional knowledge edible utility inedible poisonous mushrooms

Descriptors:

  • NZ9_3: Forestry
  • HS3_11: Ethnography and cultural anthropology (incl. descriptions of traditional cultures, anthropology of magic, worship and religion, cultural change and global processes, anthropology of socio-cultural, ethnic and identity phenomena)
  • NZ8_14: Other related subjects

Panel:

NZ9 - Fundamentals of applied life sciences and biotechnology: agricultural, forestry, horticulture, animal production and fishery, food and nutrition sciences, industrial biosciences, environmental biotechnology and remediation

Host institution :

Uniwersytet Rzeszowski, Wydział Biotechnologii

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Principal investigator (from the host institution):

Marcin Kotowski 

Number of co-investigators in the project: 2

Call: PRELUDIUM 9 - announced on 2015-03-16

Amount awarded: 112 460 PLN

Project start date (Y-m-d): 2016-03-24

Project end date (Y-m-d): 2019-03-23

Project duration:: 36 months (the same as in the proposal)

Project status: Project settled

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Equipment purchased [PL]

  1. Dyktafon Olympus (700 PLN)
  2. Tablet (3 700 PLN)

Information in the final report

  • Publication in academic press/journals (3)
  1. Differences between European regulations on wild mushroom commerce and actual trends in wild mushroom picking.
    Authors:
    Marcin Kotowski
    Academic press:
    Slovak Ethnology / Slovenský národopis (rok: 2016, tom: 2, strony: 169-178), Wydawca: Institute of Ethnology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava
    Status:
    Published
  2. History of mushroom consumption and its impact on traditional view on mycobiota–an example from Poland
    Authors:
    Marcin Kotowski
    Academic press:
    Microbial Biosystems (rok: 2019, tom: 4(3), strony: 45304), Wydawca: The Arab Society for Fungal Conservation
    Status:
    Published
  3. Extreme levels of mycophilia documented in Mazovia, a region of Poland
    Authors:
    Marcin Andrzej Kotowski, Marcin Pietras, Łukasz Łuczaj
    Academic press:
    Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine (rok: 2019, tom: 0,633333333333333, strony: 45310), Wydawca: Springer Nature
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1186/s13002-019-0291-6 - link to the publication