Comparative Studies Using Various Substrates for Enhancing Yield of Pleurotus spp

Abstract

АННОТАЦИЯ: Four species of oyster mushroom including P. djamor, P. eous, P. florida and P. citrinopileatus were tested for their yield performance, of them, the most promising yield was obtained in P. eous and P. djamor with minimum spawn running period. On subjecting them with additional substrates, sorghum grain was superior over other spawn substrates for quality spawn production in terms of earliness in growth of spawn and total yield followed by wheat grain. For, sporophore production, paddy straw was the best substrate followed by maize stalk. Additionally, Paddy chaffy grain spawn supplementation with