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Mushrooms offer significant nutritional value and medicinal properties alongside expanding roles in biotechnology. Applying biotechnological techniques to mushrooms supports solutions across global food, energy, and water security, contributing directly to sustainable development goals. Cultivation requirements and farming practices provide a base for several advanced uses. Key biotechnological applications include the production of nanoparticles, the generation of bioenergy, and the extraction of bioactive compounds for pharmaceutical uses. Additionally, mushrooms serve functional roles in bioremediation to clean polluted environments. Linking these diverse processes under the water, energy, and food nexus demonstrates how integrated mushroom farming can deliver multifaceted environmental and industrial outputs, spanning from agricultural production through to health and energy applications.
Mushrooms can address multiple sustainability challenges simultaneously. By connecting food production, environmental clean up, renewable bioenergy, and pharmaceuticals, mushroom biotechnology offers resource-efficient solutions. Understanding these pathways helps policy makers, farmers, and environmental managers design integrated agricultural systems that protect water, generate energy, and improve food security.
Potential commercial applications span agriculture, bioenergy generation, environmental bioremediation, and pharmaceutical manufacturing of bioactive compounds and nanoparticles. Prospective users include mushroom producers, bioenergy firms, and remediation operators seeking integrated production models. Because this work presents a broad review connecting these fields to the water, energy, and food nexus, the technologies reflect an early-stage scoping of opportunities rather than a single market-ready process.
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Mushrooms have always been an important source of food, with high nutritional value and medicinal attributes. With the use of biotechnological applications, mushrooms have gained further attention as a source of healthy food and bioenergy. This review presents different biotechnological applications and explores how these can support global food, energy, and water security. It highlights mushroom's relevance to meet the sustainable development goals of the UN. This review also discusses mushroom farming and its requirements. The biotechnology review includes sections on how to use mushrooms in producing nanoparticles, bioenergy, and bioactive compounds, as well as how to use mushrooms in bioremediation. The different applications are discussed under the water, energy, and food (WEF) nexus. As far as we know, this is the first report on mushroom biotechnology and its relationships to the WEF nexus. Finally, the review valorizes mushroom biotechnology and suggests different possibilities for mushroom farming integration.
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DOI: 10.3390/foods12142671
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