The Prospect of Synthetic Biology in the New Track of Edible Fungi
In recent years,the quality and added value of edible fungi have been significantly improved through the cutting-edge technological innovation.However,a challenge of homogenization has also led to practical problems such as upgrading and structural adjustment of the edible fungus industry.The development of social economy has put forward higher require-ments for the industry to better respond to new development concepts including"low carbon""green"and"recycling".In this review,we summarized the research progress and innovative applications of mushroom-based synthetic biology,hoping to in-corporate this rapidly developing field into the new track of fungal biotechnology change in China and other countries.It also fo-cused on the difficulties in the development of mushroom-based circular economy,human health and pharmacy,alternative proteins,alternative leather,pollution control,and aerospace,and proposes countermeasures to solve these problems using synthetic biology.It is hoped that in the future,the mushroom-based synthetic biology can better promote sustainable socio-economic and ecological development.