Effect of Straw Substrates and Casing Materials on Yield of Milky Mushroom (Calocybe indica P&C.) Strain CI-524

Abstract

Present experiment was carried out in Mushroom Research Laboratory, Department of Plant Pathol., IGKV, Raipur during 2015-16 to know the effect of alone and combination of different growing straw substrates and casing materials in yield of Calocybe indica. The combination of wheat + Lathyrus straw gave significantly maximum yield (765g) with BE (76.5%) followed by alone wheat straw (696.67g) with BE (69.66%), whereas the min. fresh yield (390g) with BE (39%) was obtained from the combination of wheat + mustard straw. The fresh yield of strain CI-524 of C. indica differed significantly with different casing materials. Compost + Vermicompost gave significantly higher yield (813.33g) with BE (81.33%) followed by vermicompost (748.33g) with BE (74.83%) and compost [Garden soil + FYM (1:1)] gave min. yield (690g) with BE (69.0%).