Optimizing the Substrates and Container for Enhancing the Bio Efficiency of Pleurotus florida

Author: Ramesh Kumar R.*, Darwin Christdhas Henry L., Ayyandurai M. and Kokila A.

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Abstract

Biological efficiency of mushroom cultivation is very important one. The problematic issue in mushroom cultivation is selection of suitable substrate and container, which make a profitable biological efficiency. Mushroom is an important diet food. Which cultivated all over the world. For getting more output many substrates used commercially. Many lingocellulosic substrates used for the cultivation of the mushroom and also paddy straw required the least no of days for spawn running and pinhead initiation with the maximum yield and biological efficiency, followed by banana leaves in combination with rice straw at (1:3) ratio. Adding urea @ 0. 1% conc. to the substrate was found to slightly improve the yield and biological efficiency of the substrate. Different containers viz., Plastic bottles 200g, plastic containers 300 g, mud pots 400g, perforated dustbins and polythene bags of 500 g. capacity of paddy straw (dry weight) were tried to evaluate the biological efficiency of P. florida a

Keywords

Paddy straw, containers, Urea, P. florida, Inorganic nitrogen source

Conclusion

From these research paddy straw required least no of days for spawn running and pinhead initiation with the maximum yield and biological efficiency followed by adding urea @ 0. 1% conc. to the substrate was found to slightly improve the yield and biological efficiency of the substrate and also semi transparent plastic containers recorded a biological efficiency of 131.02% and 124.89% respectively. Above the outputs based we have framed the cultivation of mushroom led to the highest biological efficiency.

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INTRODUCTION A substrate is any material or substance that serves as a medium of growth for a living thing in which enzymes can act upon and break it to release nutrients for the growing organism. Pleurotus species is a wood digesting fungi, which was first cultivated on logs (Ingale and Ramteke 2010). During the year 2017, 10 million tonnes of mushrooms were produced globally with major contributions from China (77%), Europe (12%), United States of America (4%), and India (1%) (FAOSTAT 2017). The poor management of the waste and effluents from households, industries, and agricultural fields is further deteriorating the already crippling ecosystem (Akhtar and Amin-ul Mannan, 2020). The protein content of mushrooms varies from 4-44% according to the species (Okoro and Achuba, 2012). Mushrooms can utilize a large variety of agricultural waste products and transform the lignocellulosic biomass into food of high quality, flavor and nutritive value. It can also decrease air pollution and e

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Ramesh Kumar R., Darwin Christdhas Henry L., Ayyandurai M. and Kokila A. (2022). Optimizing the Substrates and Container for Enhancing the Bio Efficiency of Pleurotus florida. Biological Forum – An International Journal, 14(1): 1683-1687.