The famous mycologist died of illness in the past years at the age of 84. Before his death, he developed a variety of edible fungi such as tea tree mushroom king oyster mushroom

According to the Obituary issued by Kunming Institute of Edible Fungi of All-China Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives on September 19, Mr. , a famous mycologist in my country, former director and researcher of the Institute of Mycology in Sanming City, Fujian Province, died in September 2022. He died of illness at 5:25 on the 18th, at the age of 84. According to public information, Huang Lai was born in Anhai Town, Jinjiang City, Fujian Province in November 1939, and graduated from the Department of Biology of Fujian Normal University in 1961. He has successively served as a research intern of the Wild Plant Classification Laboratory of Fujian Institute of Biology, an intern researcher, assistant researcher, associate researcher, researcher, director, deputy director and director of the Edible Fungus Research Office of Sanming Mycology Research Institute. The obituary of

pointed out that he has been engaged in research on large fungi resources, edible fungi genetics and breeding, cultivation and processing for nearly 50 years, and is the first generation of edible fungi industry and discipline leaders since the founding of New China. Zeng Xuan More than 20 varieties of fine edible fungi have been bred, which greatly enriched the cultivated varieties of edible fungi in my country. The research and development of delicious "rare edible mushrooms" such as tea tree mushrooms, king oyster mushrooms, asafoetida mushrooms, rhizome mushrooms, giant mushrooms and other delicious "rare edible mushrooms" have become the new economic growth of my country's edible mushroom industry. The growth point has made outstanding contributions to my country's edible mushroom industry.

has been loving the mushroom business for the past few years, and has worked hard and achieved fruitful results. He has won a total of 12 national, provincial and ministerial awards, among which "Fujian Fungi Illustration (Volume 1)" won the 1978 Fujian Provincial Science and Technology Achievement Award; "Fujian Province Large-scale Fungal Classification Research" won the 2001 Fujian Provincial Science and Technology Progress II The first prize; the "Fujian Longqi Mountain Nature Reserve Biological Resources Survey" won the second prize of Fujian Province Science and Technology Progress. Mr. Huang Lai has successively won the National "May 1st" Labor Medal, the "May 1st" Labor Medal of Fujian Province, the National Outstanding Scientific and Technological Worker, and the Fujian Provincial Advanced Scientific and Technological Worker.

has written (translated) more than ten books in the past few years, benefiting generations of scholars in China's edible mushroom industry, and exerting a lasting and far-reaching impact on the development of my country's edible mushroom industry.

Source: The Paper