Cultivation of Pleurotus citrinopileatus on handmade paper and cardboard industrial wastes

Recycling cardboard wastes to produce blue oyster mushroom Pleurotus ostreatus in Iraq

“…is found in Iraq wildly (Owaid et al, 2014b). As industrial wastes and agricultural residues in same time, cardboard is rich in cellulosic and lignocellulosic matters that can be utilized as a substrate at alone or in mixture with wheat straw, to cultivate and produce many edible mushrooms (Kulshreshtha et al, 2013).…”

“…The big bags were raised the productivity to average 170% compared with small bags too in general, which considered useful economically to raise the national income in large containers into cardboard as a cellulosic wastes instead of the common substrate (wheat straw), which used as a fodder for livestock in this homeland at least appreciation. (Kulshreshtha et al, 2010;Kulshreshtha et al, 2011;Kulshreshtha et al, 2013), cardboard with cane (Al-issawy, 2011), cardboard with plants paper and white sawdust (Mandeel et al, 2005), date palm residues (Hassan, 2011;Owaid, 2013;Alheeti et al, 2013b), waste paper with wood chips (Sofi et al, 2014) and Malaysian sawdust with rice bran (Owaid et al, 2015b).…”

“…Cardboard is the last stage of paper making technology and it is produced when pulp fi bres becomes too short to be recycled and used for making paper. Cardboards are rich in lignocellulosic residues (Kulshreshtha et al, 2013). What is produced from solid wastes in Iraq alone is estimated at 5446000 tons/year, around is 12.3% is burned according to statistics of year 2005 (UNSD, 2011).…”

Nutraceutical Value of Four Oyster Mushroom Species, Higher Basidiomycetes

“…has been used as a food and drug [3]. This mushroom can be using cellulosic substrates easily as a carbon and energy source, like wheat straw, paddy straw, rice straw, corn cobs wastes, cotton wastes, soybean straw [4], bean straw, molasses wastes [5], paper wastes [6,7], wood sawdust [8], date palm wastes [9][10][11][12][13].…”

Using of date palm fiber mixed with other lignocelluloses toward <i>Pleurotus ostreatus </i>(Higher Basidiomycetes) cultivation

“…can be cultivated on a wide variety of substrates containing lignin, cellulose and hemicellulose (Gregori et al, 2007) such soybean straw, paddy straw, coffee pulp, cotton wastes, corn cobs wastes (Poppe, 2004), bean straw, crushed bagasse, molasses wastes (Ahmed et al, 2009), cardboard and paper wastes (Al-Issawy, 2011, Kulshreshtha et al, 2013 and trees sawdust with rice bran (Owaid et al, 2015b). Recently, Pleurotus ostreatus was produced on some date palm wastes such empty palm fruit Based on the availability of agro-wastes materials like wheat straw (S1), white sawdust (S4), date palm fiber (S5) and their combinations S2 (70% wheat straw, 20% white sawdust and 10% date palm fiber) and S3 (50% wheat straw, 30% white sawdust and 20% date palm fiber); cultivation of oyster mushroom Pleurotus ostreatus was successful thereof.…”