Effect of different substrates on (sporophore) yield of oyster mushroom (P. florida)

Abstract

Oyster mushroom is one of the most important edible mushrooms with medicinal value. Which commercially cultivated for food, and its world production is rapidly increasing day by day. The avocation of mushroom farming will become a very important cottage industry in the integrated rural development programme, which will lead to the economic betterment of not only small farmers but also of landless laboures and other weak sections of communities. An experiment was conducted to find out some other suitable substitutes of substrate Pigeon pea leaf powder and Black gram leaf powder were used with wheat straw. These substrates were mixed with (wheat straw) separately @ (8%, 7%, 6% and 5%) for cultivation of oyster mushroom (P. florida) on spawn run i.e. mycelial ramification in substrate, days for spawn run, period of cropping, pileus length, total yield, average yield and number of sporophores were recorded and data presented. The result indicated that maximum yield (957.00 g/kg of dry substrate with 95.70% B.E.) was observed in wheat straw + Pigeon pea leaf powder 8% which was statistically higher than other treatments. The highest number of fruiting bodies (143.00) was observed from wheat straw + Pigeon pea leaf powder 6% at…. Days.