Agaricus bisporus (J.E. Lange) Imbach
(Cultivated Mushroom)

Interactions where Agaricus bisporus is the dominant partner and gains from the process

The following relationships have been collated from the published literature (see 'Interaction References').

Stage		Summary			Taxon	Vernacular	Classification	References	Darwin Classification of Active Taxon	Active Taxon	Active Vernacular	Active Taxon Uncertain	Active State	Active Part	Active Stage	Relationship	Relationship Uncertain	Relationship Geography	Darwin Classification of Passive Taxon	Passive Taxon	Passive Vernacular	Passive Taxon Uncertain	Passive State	Passive Part	Passive Stage	Passive Taxon's significance to Active Taxon	Indoors etc	Season
		is associated with			Scytalidium thermophilum	an anamorphic fungus	Sordariales	Taxonomy of Scytalidium thermophilum, an important thermophilic fungus in mushroom compost, Straatsma, G. & Samson, R.A., 1993	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Agaricomycetes/Agaricales/Agaricaceae/Agaricus bisporus/	Agaricus bisporus	cultivated mushroom					Fungus / associate			/Fungi/Ascomycota/Sordariomycetes/Sordariales/Scytalidium thermophilum/	Scytalidium thermophilum	an anamorphic fungus

Interactions where Agaricus bisporus is the victim or passive partner (and generally loses out from the process)

The following relationships have been collated from the published literature (see 'Interaction References').

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Affected Part		Summary			Taxon	Vernacular	Classification	References	Darwin Classification of Active Taxon	Active Taxon	Active Vernacular	Active Taxon Uncertain	Active State	Active Part	Active Stage	Relationship	Relationship Uncertain	Relationship Geography	Darwin Classification of Passive Taxon	Passive Taxon	Passive Vernacular	Passive Taxon Uncertain	Passive State	Passive Part	Passive Stage	Passive Taxon's significance to Active Taxon	Indoors etc	Season	Summary
		mycelium is parasitised by colony of Cephalosporium anamorph			Lecanicillium fungicola	an anamorphic fungus	Hypocreales: Cordycipitaceae	British Parasitic Fungi, Moore, W.C., 1959 Three diseases of cultivated mushrooms., Smith, F.E.V., 1924	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Sordariomycetes/Hypocreales/Cordycipitaceae/Lecanicillium fungicola/	Lecanicillium fungicola	an anamorphic fungus			colony	Cephalosporium anamorph	Fungus / parasite		UK and/or Eire	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Agaricomycetes/Agaricales/Agaricaceae/Agaricus bisporus/	Agaricus bisporus	cultivated mushroom				mycelium				colony of Cephalosporium anamorph parasitises mycelium
(patchily chocolate-brown)		patchily chocolate-brown fruitbody is parasitised by			Acremonium	a genus of anamorphic fungi	Hypocreales	British Parasitic Fungi, Moore, W.C., 1959	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Sordariomycetes/Hypocreales/Acremonium/	Acremonium	a genus of anamorphic fungi					Fungus / parasite		UK and/or Eire	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Agaricomycetes/Agaricales/Agaricaceae/Agaricus bisporus/	Agaricus bisporus	cultivated mushroom		patchily chocolate-brown		fruitbody				parasitises patchily chocolate-brown fruitbody
(thick stiped, small capped, deformed)		thick stiped, small capped, deformed fruitbody is parasitised by chlamydospore of Hypomyces anamorph			Mycogone perniciosa	Mycogone Disease Of Mushrooms - causative organism	Hypocreales: Hypocreaceae	Three diseases of cultivated mushrooms., Smith, F.E.V., 1924	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Sordariomycetes/Hypocreales/Hypocreaceae/Mycogone perniciosa/	Mycogone perniciosa	Mycogone disease of mushrooms (causative organism)			chlamydospore	Hypomyces anamorph	Fungus / parasite		UK and/or Eire	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Agaricomycetes/Agaricales/Agaricaceae/Agaricus bisporus/	Agaricus bisporus	cultivated mushroom		thick stiped, small capped, deformed		fruitbody		Indoors, in greenhouse, captivity, culture or experimentally induced		chlamydospore of Hypomyces anamorph parasitises thick stiped, small capped, deformed fruitbody
(thick stiped, small capped, deformed)		thick stiped, small capped, deformed fruitbody is parasitised by colony of Verticillium anamorph			Mycogone perniciosa	Mycogone Disease Of Mushrooms - causative organism	Hypocreales: Hypocreaceae	Three diseases of cultivated mushrooms., Smith, F.E.V., 1924	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Sordariomycetes/Hypocreales/Hypocreaceae/Mycogone perniciosa/	Mycogone perniciosa	Mycogone disease of mushrooms (causative organism)			colony	Verticillium anamorph	Fungus / parasite		UK and/or Eire	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Agaricomycetes/Agaricales/Agaricaceae/Agaricus bisporus/	Agaricus bisporus	cultivated mushroom		thick stiped, small capped, deformed		fruitbody		Indoors, in greenhouse, captivity, culture or experimentally induced		colony of Verticillium anamorph parasitises thick stiped, small capped, deformed fruitbody
decaying		decaying of fruitbody is decayed by			Paecilomyces penicillatus	(An Ascomycete)	Eurotiales: Trichocomaceae	A UK commodity Pest Risk Analysis for the cultivated mushroom, Agaricus bisporus, Woodhall, J.W., Smith, J.E., Mills, P.R. & Sansford, C.E., 2009	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Eurotiomycetes/Eurotiales/Trichocomaceae/Paecilomyces penicillatus/	Paecilomyces penicillatus	(an ascomycete)					Fungus / saprobe		Foreign	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Agaricomycetes/Agaricales/Agaricaceae/Agaricus bisporus/	Agaricus bisporus	cultivated mushroom			decaying	fruitbody	Rare			is saprobic on decaying of fruitbody
fruitbody		fruitbody is parasitised by colony of Hormiactis anamorph			Hormiactis alba	an anamorphic fungus		Fungi of the South East England, Dennis, R.W.G., 1995 Microfungi on Miscellaneous Substrates: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1998	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Hormiactis alba/	Hormiactis alba	an anamorphic fungus			colony	Hormiactis anamorph	Fungus / parasite		UK and/or Eire	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Agaricomycetes/Agaricales/Agaricaceae/Agaricus bisporus/	Agaricus bisporus	cultivated mushroom			fruitbody					colony of Hormiactis anamorph parasitises fruitbody
fruitbody		fruitbody is parasitised by colony of Verticillium anamorph			Verticillium psalliotae	an anamorphic fungus	Hypocreales: Cordycipitaceae	Microfungi on Miscellaneous Substrates: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1998	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Sordariomycetes/Hypocreales/Cordycipitaceae/Verticillium psalliotae/	Verticillium psalliotae	an anamorphic fungus			colony	Verticillium anamorph	Fungus / parasite			/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Agaricomycetes/Agaricales/Agaricaceae/Agaricus bisporus/	Agaricus bisporus	cultivated mushroom			fruitbody					colony of Verticillium anamorph parasitises fruitbody
gill (fasciated, mouldy)		fasciated, mouldy gill of fruitbody is parasitised by colony of Cephalosporium anamorph			Simplicillium lamellicola	Gill Mildew or Flock Disease Of Mushrooms - causative organism	Hypocreales: Cordycipitaceae	British Parasitic Fungi, Moore, W.C., 1959 Three diseases of cultivated mushrooms., Smith, F.E.V., 1924	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Sordariomycetes/Hypocreales/Cordycipitaceae/Simplicillium lamellicola/	Simplicillium lamellicola	gill mildew or flock disease of mushrooms (causative organism)			colony	Cephalosporium anamorph	Fungus / parasite		UK and/or Eire	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Agaricomycetes/Agaricales/Agaricaceae/Agaricus bisporus/	Agaricus bisporus	cultivated mushroom		fasciated, mouldy	gill	fruitbody		Indoors, in greenhouse, captivity, culture or experimentally induced		colony of Cephalosporium anamorph parasitises fasciated, mouldy gill of fruitbody
mycelium		mycelium is parasitised by			Pseudomonas ’reactans’	(A Bacterial Pathogen)	Pseudomonadales: Pseudomonadaceae	A UK commodity Pest Risk Analysis for the cultivated mushroom, Agaricus bisporus, Woodhall, J.W., Smith, J.E., Mills, P.R. & Sansford, C.E., 2009	/Proteobacteria/Gammaproteobacteria/Pseudomonadales/Pseudomonadaceae/Pseudomonas 'reactans'/	Pseudomonas 'reactans'	(a bacterial pathogen)					Fungus / parasite		Foreign	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Agaricomycetes/Agaricales/Agaricaceae/Agaricus bisporus/	Agaricus bisporus	cultivated mushroom			mycelium					parasitises mycelium
mycelium		mycelium is parasitised by			Pseudomonas costantinii	(A Bacterial Pathogen)	Pseudomonadales: Pseudomonadaceae	A UK commodity Pest Risk Analysis for the cultivated mushroom, Agaricus bisporus, Woodhall, J.W., Smith, J.E., Mills, P.R. & Sansford, C.E., 2009	/Proteobacteria/Gammaproteobacteria/Pseudomonadales/Pseudomonadaceae/Pseudomonas costantinii/	Pseudomonas costantinii	(a bacterial pathogen)					Fungus / parasite		Foreign	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Agaricomycetes/Agaricales/Agaricaceae/Agaricus bisporus/	Agaricus bisporus	cultivated mushroom			mycelium					parasitises mycelium
mycelium		mycelium is associate of			Trichoderma aggressivum f.sp. aggressivum	(A Mould)	Hypocreales: Hypocreaceae	A UK commodity Pest Risk Analysis for the cultivated mushroom, Agaricus bisporus, Woodhall, J.W., Smith, J.E., Mills, P.R. & Sansford, C.E., 2009	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Sordariomycetes/Hypocreales/Hypocreaceae/Trichoderma aggressivum f.sp. aggressivum/	Trichoderma aggressivum f.sp. aggressivum	(a mould)					Fungus / associate		Foreign	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Agaricomycetes/Agaricales/Agaricaceae/Agaricus bisporus/	Agaricus bisporus	cultivated mushroom			mycelium					is associated with mycelium
mycelium		mycelium is associate of			Trichoderma asprellum	(A Mould)	Hypocreales: Hypocreaceae	A UK commodity Pest Risk Analysis for the cultivated mushroom, Agaricus bisporus, Woodhall, J.W., Smith, J.E., Mills, P.R. & Sansford, C.E., 2009	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Sordariomycetes/Hypocreales/Hypocreaceae/Trichoderma asprellum/	Trichoderma asprellum	(a mould)					Fungus / associate		Foreign	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Agaricomycetes/Agaricales/Agaricaceae/Agaricus bisporus/	Agaricus bisporus	cultivated mushroom			mycelium					is associated with mycelium
mycelium		mycelium is associate of fruitbody			Clitopilus passeckerianus	a toadstool	Agaricales: Entolomataceae	Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota, Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Agaricomycetes/Agaricales/Entolomataceae/Clitopilus passeckerianus/	Clitopilus passeckerianus	a toadstool				fruitbody	Fungus / associate			/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Agaricomycetes/Agaricales/Agaricaceae/Agaricus bisporus/	Agaricus bisporus	cultivated mushroom			mycelium					fruitbody is associated with mycelium
mycelium (live)		live mycelium is food source of anamorph			Chaetomium globosum	an ascomycete fungus	Sordariales: Chaetomiaceae	British Parasitic Fungi, Moore, W.C., 1959	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Sordariomycetes/Sordariales/Chaetomiaceae/Chaetomium globosum/	Chaetomium globosum	an ascomycete fungus				anamorph	Fungus / feeder		UK and/or Eire	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Agaricomycetes/Agaricales/Agaricaceae/Agaricus bisporus/	Agaricus bisporus	cultivated mushroom		live	mycelium					anamorph feeds on live mycelium
mycelium (live)		live mycelium is food source of anamorph			Chaetomium globosum	an ascomycete fungus	Sordariales: Chaetomiaceae	British Parasitic Fungi, Moore, W.C., 1959	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Sordariomycetes/Sordariales/Chaetomiaceae/Chaetomium globosum/	Chaetomium globosum	an ascomycete fungus				anamorph	Fungus / feeder		UK and/or Eire	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Agaricomycetes/Agaricales/Agaricaceae/Agaricus bisporus/	Agaricus bisporus	cultivated mushroom		live	mycelium					anamorph feeds on live mycelium

Author & Year	Title	Source
Dennis, R.W.G., 1995	Fungi of the South East England	383pp, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1998	Microfungi on Miscellaneous Substrates: An Identification Handbook	2nd (New Enlarged) edition, 246pp, The Richmond Publishing Co. Ltd
Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005	Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota	517pp, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Moore, W.C., 1959	British Parasitic Fungi	430pp, Cambridge University Press
Smith, F.E.V., 1924	Three diseases of cultivated mushrooms.	TBMS Vol 10 (1+2): 81-99.
Straatsma, G. & Samson, R.A., 1993	Taxonomy of Scytalidium thermophilum, an important thermophilic fungus in mushroom compost	Mycol. Res. Vol 97 (03): 321-328.
Woodhall, J.W., Smith, J.E., Mills, P.R. & Sansford, C.E., 2009	A UK commodity Pest Risk Analysis for the cultivated mushroom, Agaricus bisporus	PRAs for consultation on pest risk management PRAs for consultation on pest risk management.

Agaricus bisporus (Cultivated Mushroom) may also be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Agaricus bisporus (Cultivated Mushroom) may also be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Agaricus
(true mushrooms)

AGARICALES
(mushrooms and toadstools)

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Macromycetes
(larger fungi, macrofungi)

Fungi s.l.
(fungi (in the broad sense))

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Species	Agaricus bisporus (Cultivated Mushroom)
Genus	Agaricus (true mushrooms)
Family	AGARICACEAE (mushrooms, dapperlings and parasols, puffballs and bird’s-nests)
Order	AGARICALES (mushrooms and toadstools)
Subclass	AGARICOMYCETIDAE (a subclass of basidiomycetes)
Class	AGARICOMYCETES (a class of fungi)
Subphylum	AGARICOMYCOTINA (a subphylum of fungi)
Phylum	BASIDIOMYCOTA (spore droppers, basidiomycetes)
Kingdom	FUNGI (true fungi)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

Agaricus bisporus is also a member of:
Macromycetes - larger fungi, macrofungi (via Agaricales)
Fungi s.l. - fungi (in the broad sense) (via Fungi)
Lower Plants - lower plants (via Fungi s.l.)

NBN

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Agaricus bisporus (Cultivated Mushroom)

Agaricus bisporus (Cultivated Mushroom) may be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

Agaricus
(true mushrooms)

AGARICACEAE
(mushrooms, dapperlings and parasols, puffballs and bird’s-nests)

AGARICALES
(mushrooms and toadstools)

AGARICOMYCETIDAE
(a subclass of basidiomycetes)

AGARICOMYCETES
(a class of fungi)

BASIDIOMYCOTA
(spore droppers, basidiomycetes)

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Macromycetes
(larger fungi, macrofungi)

Fungi s.l.
(fungi (in the broad sense))

General Works

Author	Year	Title	Source
Smith, F.E.V.	1924	Three diseases of cultivated mushrooms.	TBMS Vol 10 (1+2): 81-99.
Pathology
Nixon, T.	2011	A rapid new test for Trichoderma green mould in mushroom compost	1.
Woodhall, J.W., Smith, J.E., Mills, P.R. & Sansford, C.E.	2009	A UK commodity Pest Risk Analysis for the cultivated mushroom, Agaricus bisporus	PRAs for consultation on pest risk management PRAs for consultation on pest risk management.

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may also be relevant to Agaricus bisporus (Cultivated Mushroom):

Agaricus
(true mushrooms)

AGARICACEAE
(mushrooms, dapperlings and parasols, puffballs and bird’s-nests)

AGARICALES
(mushrooms and toadstools)

AGARICOMYCETIDAE
(a subclass of basidiomycetes)

AGARICOMYCETES
(a class of fungi)

BASIDIOMYCOTA
(spore droppers, basidiomycetes)

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Macromycetes
(larger fungi, macrofungi)

Fungi s.l.
(fungi (in the broad sense))

BioImages

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