Human has always fascinated by beauty and glory of fungus world. The distribution and magnitude of fungal diversity today is a result of millions and billions years of evolution. Macro-fungi (Mushroom) are the small group of species in kingdom Fungi. They are the fruit body of higher fungi which can see by plane eyes and includes stalk (stem), piles (cap) with gills or pores that contains spores on basidia. Generally mushrooms are parasitic, saprophytic or symbiotic, they have gained importance because of high nutritive value and rich source and rich source of vitamins and drugs. I am grateful to Dr Akhilesh Kumar Pandey, Chairman Privet University Regulatory Commission, M.P. Government, Bhopal India for his guidance and valuable suggestion. I am also thankful to the Vice-Chancellor and Registrar, MATS University, Raipur, C.G. India.

Dr Ashish Saraf, M.Sc., Ph.D., Associate Professor, Faculty of Biological and Chemical Sciences, MATS University, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India has more than 10 years teaching and research experience in various fields of Mycology. Three students awarded M.Phil. degree and six Ph.D. scholars are registered. He had published 30 research papers.