1Mushroom Research Laboratory, K.S.S. P.G. College, Ayodhya, Faizabad, (U.P.) India
2Department of Biotechnology, Gandhi Faiz-e-Aam P.G. College, Shahjahnapur, (U.P.) India
3Department of Botany, K.S.S. P.G. College, Ayodhya-Faizabad, (U.P.) India
*E-mail: siddhant.ani@gmail.com
Online published on 19 December, 2013.
The present study deals with the use of ten locally available crop wastes, viz., banana pseudostem (Musa spp), mustard husk (Brassica campestris), mustard stem (Brassica campestris), dry fruit of Ridge gourd (Luffa aegyptiaca), groundnut shell (Arachis hypogaea), maize cob (Zea mays), paddy Straw (Oryza sativa), pea straw (Pisum sativum), rice husk (Oryza sativa) and tobacco stem (Nicotiana tabacum) for various parameters of mushroom production. Results regarding the time required for spawn running, primordial development and maturation of fruiting bodies on different substrates showed that they appeared earlier on paddy straw and also gave significant biological efficiency (66%) than the control.
Biological efficiency, Crop wastes, Pleurotus eous
