🍄⁉️ DYK Penn State is one of the few places in the world that has a space dedicated to mushroom research?   The emphasis of Penn State’s current research program is directed toward basic and applied technologies of factors controlling mushroom quality by improving commercial mushroom production through disease control.    Three key factors in increasing demand and sale of fresh mushrooms are to improve mushroom quality and shelf life, and to enhance nutritional properties which Penn State focuses on through studying and manipulating microbial ecology and population dynamics during the composting process. #WeAre