Dear Ashwini Sundarmurthy, Since you are looking for the goal of leveraging the medicinal and therapeutic value of the Ganoderma mushroom it would be good to understand if the cultivation method influences the medicinal value. To test this I would grow the Gandoderma under mushroom house conditions and compare to log cultures in open field or woods production. The harvests can be compared for amount of production and the ability to measure the active ingredients under the contrasting condition. You might also want to test if the active ingredients might be efficiently produced in submerged liquid cultures and the mycelium might be dried and pulverized into supplement doses in pill form. You may want to do a literature review before devising your focus as there are quite a few studies of Ganoderma species. Best Luck, PRH

Thank you so much sir 

Dear Ashwini,

You should go for chemical analysis of these mushrooms with some basic TLC techniques, also go for diversity index, do microscopic examination, if you know the host name while you collecting these mushrooms.

Dear Ashwini, Yes the therapeutic ability of Ganoderma is quite demonstrated in the literature. If you can team up with a medical laboratory which has cancerous cell lines the ability to use different Ganoderma strains could identify for strain variability. Combined with looking at culture conditions and the therapeutic properties these studies would start to show the environmental and genetic influences on Ganoderma therapeutics. You may want to identify collaborators to give this the proper specialization for the different foci of interest.