Combining fungal species geographic distribution and ecological structure to implement accurate models of potential harvesting yield of wild edible mushroom species

野生蘑菇的收获在加拿大是一个蓬勃发展的活动，主要是在魁北克省，安大略和不列颠哥伦比亚省。一些人认为野生蘑菇的收获是一种娱乐活动，也引起了商业兴趣，现在，许多公司都在从事这些蘑菇的采摘，转化和销售。然而，与商业产品相比，寻找好的采摘区所花费的时间需要很高的零售价格。高零售价格主要可以由两个因素解释：1）野生蘑菇采摘量小，在短时间内可以获得，因此大多数人不会将其纳入不规律的饮食中，2）对鉴定缺乏信心使消费者不愿意为潜在的有毒产品支付高价。后者的理由是，加拿大是几个有毒和一些致命物种的东道国，如果消费者完全确定他们会更容易消费（和支付）这些产品。然而，魁北克省的MAPAQ和加拿大食品检验局（CFIA）都缺乏人员、能力和工具来准确识别野生蘑菇。Progigraph精心设计的项目希望解决这两个问题：供应和安全。Progigraph开发和使用的分子条形码将增加其目前的蘑菇收获预测GIS数据库。此外，Progigraph将使用最先进的长读序Illumina测序技术来评估环境复杂样本，直至物种水平。生成的条形码将通过国际生命条形码数据库（iBOLD）公开，然后可供MAPAQ和CFIA以及监管机构使用。

Wild mushroom harvesting is a booming activity in Canada, mostly in Québec, Ontario and British-Columbia.Considered by some as a recreational activity, the harvest of wild mushrooms has also raised a commercialinterest and now, numerous companies are engaged in picking, transformation and sale of those mushrooms.However, the time invested to find good picking areas entails a high retail price compared with commercialproducts. The high retail price can be explained essentially by two factors: 1) wild mushrooms are picked insmall quantities, they are available during a short period and therefore most people don't include them in theirregular diet, 2) the lack of confidence in the identification renders the consumers hesitant to pay a high pricefor a potentially toxic product. The latter can be justified by the fact that Canada is host of several toxic andsome deadly species, if consumer would be entirely sure of the identification they would more readily consume(and pay for) those products. However, both the MAPAQ (in Québec) and the Canadian Food InspectionAgency (CFIA) lack the personnel, the ability and the tools to provide an accurate identification of the wildmushrooms. The project crafted by Progigraph want to tackles these two issues: supply and security. Throughthe development and use of molecular barcodes Progigraph will add to its current mushroom harvestingpredictive GIS database. Moreover, Progigraph will use new state-of-the-art long read Illumina sequencing toassess environmental complex samples down to the species level. The generated Barcodes will be made publicthrough the International BarCode of Life Database (iBOLD) and will then be available for use by the MAPAQand CFIA and regulatory organisms.