Kinoko No Oshie (Iwanami Shinsho)

[Machine Translation] Symbiotic with tree roots, decomposing wood and fallen leaves, fungi quietly support the forest. Mushrooms are reproductive devices of fungi. Humanity should learn the lessons of mushrooms, which evolved into symbiosis based on a fate that is different from that of plants and animals. This book is full of interesting topics on food, the environment, and life, including the struggles of cultivating matsutake mushrooms and truffles, the regeneration of pine forests using mushrooms and charcoal, and mushrooms that collect radioactivity.

木の根と共生し、木材や落ち葉を分解して、菌類はひっそりと森を支えている。キノコは菌類の繁殖装置。植物とも動物とも異なる宿命のもと共生へと進化したキノコの教えをいま人類は学ぶべきではないか。マツタケやトリュフ栽培の苦心、キノコと炭による松林の再生、放射能を集めるキノコなど、食と環境と生命をめぐる興味深い話題を満載。