Abstract: As wild mushroom species popular all over the world, bolete mushrooms are of great economic importance and can be used for both culinary and medicinal purpose. Controllable quality and safety of bolete mushrooms is the foundation for ensuring consumer health and green and sustainable development of this industry. Developing comprehensive, stable and systematic quality evaluation methods is beneficial for the quality control of bolete mushrooms and is important for the stable development of the market. Thanks to their advantages such as simplicity, rapidity and high practicability, spectral analysis techniques can make up for the defects of traditional sensory evaluation and improve the analytical accuracy. Hence, spectral analysis techniques have been widely applied to evaluate the quality of bolete mushrooms and have provided important technical support for the quality assessment and authentication of bolete mushrooms and for ensuring product quality stability and consistency. This article reviews the current status and progress in the application of spectral analysis techniques in research on wild-grown bolete mushrooms. Future prospects for the application of infrared spectroscopy and ultraviolet spectroscopy as well as multi-spectral information fusion technique to identify the geographical origin, species, storage time of bolete mushrooms. This review is expected to provide evidence for further research and reasonable utilization of bolete mushrooms.

Key words: bolete mushrooms, infrared spectroscopy, ultraviolet spectroscopy, multi-spectral information fusion, discrimination and evaluation