Dear Colleagues,

The Special Issue of “Molecular Genetics and Genomics of Mushroom-forming Fungi” was very successful. The Journal of Fungi decided to publish a second edition of the Special Issue. The second edition has now been re-opened to invite more contributions to the topic. I am again pleased to invite you to submit your invaluable contributions to this Special Issue of “Molecular Genetics and Genomics of Mushroom-forming Fungi, Second Edition”. This Special Issue is a great opportunity for us who share our passions in the study of mushrooms to publish our recent achievements together in one issue of this excellent journal. Mushroom-forming fungi provide great models for the study of fungal development, differentiation, genetic regulation, morphogenesis, and evolution. We have all been fascinated by the complex structure produced from microscopic mycelium. The conspicuous structures of mushrooms and related sclerotia are subjects with relative ease to investigate various biological processes in the fungal life cycle. However, even though we have been using mushrooms as food and medicine for thousands of years to our benefit, many of them are not well understood in terms of their basic biology and genetics. Not until the early 1990’s, when molecular genetic technology advanced to be applicable for the study of living organisms with less-known basic genetics and genetic tools, that the molecular genetic studies of mushrooms really took off. The advances in genomic technology as a result of the human genome project further allowed more in-depth analyses of mushroom gene regulation, genetic structure, development, and evolution. Now that advanced molecular genetic and genomic tools have matured, we can really start to gain a good understanding of mushroom biology. The scope of the studies has expanded from single gene to whole genome studies, and from model mushrooms to those with nutritional, medicinal, and environmental values.

I encourage you to join us in showcasing our recent achievements in molecular genetics and genomics of mushroom-forming fungi in the second edition of this Special Issue. This would serve as a landmark of the high level of science in this extraordinarily interesting field.

Prof. Dr. Hoi Shan Shan Kwan
Guest Editor

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• mushrooms
• genomics
• population genomics
• DNA sequencing
• RNA sequencing
• transcriptomics
• epigenomics
• phylogeny
• evolution
• multicellularity
• mating types
• genetic architecture
• fruiting body development
• CRISPR