Plant Disease Research

Composting for mushroom production is a very systematic process. During Phase-I thermophilic microorganisms play an important role in decomposition of the base materials and the activator thereby increasing the temperature of compost pile. During phase-II, compost when inoculated with thermophilic fungi viz. Humicola insolens and Scytalidium thermophilum alone or in combination increased the temperature during pasteurization and conditioning when compared with control thus resulting in faster decomposition.