Impact of Using Leached Spent Mushroom Compost as a Partial Growing Media for Horticultural Plants

Gonani, Z.; Riahi, Hossein; Sharifi, Kasra

doi:10.1080/01904167.2011.536876

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“…(2) Substrate substitution for plant production, with additional mineral fertiliser added [11,16,25,26]. (3) Addition to natural soils as an organic amendment/biofertiliser, no mineral fertiliser added [9,17,18,27,28]. (4) Addition to natural soils as an organic amendment, with additional mineral fertiliser added [19,29].…”

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“…In addition, K + is high in SMC, and excessive levels may lead to imbalances or "antagonism" between K + , Ca 2+ and Mg 2+ ions [28]. However, K + is also one of the ions that is most easily leached [9,25].…”

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“…Therefore, compost from waste materials is being increasingly adopted as peat substitute. Among the challenges of including a high percentage of compost in growing media are high pH, high salinity and nitrogen immobilisation [7][8][9].…”

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Amelioration of Composts for Greenhouse Vegetable Plants Using Pasteurised Agaricus Mushroom Substrate

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When using food and green waste composts as peat-free plant growing media, there is a challenge that nutrient immobilisation and high pH and salts content limit plant growth. The present study explored the use of spent mushroom compost (SMC) of Agaricus subrufescens in a sustainable plant growing system where only vermicompost from digested food waste and composted green wastes were used, even for the seedling stage. However, negative effects of high compost inclusion were offset by adding SMC. Significantly higher plant yield was obtained in several of the SMC amended treatments in four out of five lettuce experiments and in one tomato experiment. In addition, an experiment with cucumbers showed that nutrients were not available to the plant when the mushroom mycelium was actively growing, but became available if the mushroom mycelium had been inactivated first by pasteurisation. A significant effect from SMC was not observed under full fertigation. This study demonstrated that the addition of pasteurised Agaricus mycelium colonised compost can successfully offset negative effects from high pH and EC as well as limited nutrient supply (and nitrogen immobilisation) in peat-free, compost-based growing media.

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“…Some studies propose that SMS be used as a renewable fuel to generate power [28]. However, since SMS is a valuable source of organic matter and nutrients, it has potential uses in agriculture [29,30], horticulture [31,32], livestock feeding [33] and bioremediation of various types of pollutants. The latter include: polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons -PAHs- [34], fungicides [35,36], pesticides [37], petroleum [38], acid mine drainage [39,40] and textile effluents [41].…”

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Bioremediation of Waste Water to Remove Heavy Metals Using the Spent Mushroom Substrate of Agaricus bisporus

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Vergara-González

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The presence of heavy metals in waste water brings serious environmental pollution that threatens human health and the ecosystem. Bioremediation of heavy metals has received considerable and growing interest over the years. Thus, this paper presents the use of the Spent Mushroom Substrate (SMS) of Agaricus bisporus cultivation as a bioremediating agent to remove heavy metals that are present in industrial waters. These metals include chromium, lead, iron, cobalt, nickel, manganese, zinc, copper and aluminium. In particular, this study analyses the performance of SMS bioreactors with different groups of heavy metals at various concentrations. Between 80% and 98% of all contaminants that were analysed can be removed with 5 kg of SMS at hydraulic retention times of 10 and 100 days. The best removal efficiencies and longevities were achieved when removing iron (III), nickel and cobalt from contaminated water at a pH of 2.5. These results suggest that SMS can successfully treat waste water that has been contaminated with heavy metals.

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“…The most important advantage of this branch of agriculture is that it can take the advantage of the production cycle. Numerous researchers confirm that disused mushroom compost can be used as substrate for successful cultivation of many crops [6][7][8][9]. However, care should be taken on the amount of used mushroom compost.…”

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Alternative Substrate Use in Geranium Transplants Production (Pelargonium peltatum L. and Pelargonium zonale L.)

Parađiković¹

2018

J. Agric. Food Dev.

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Container production of horticultural plants on alternative substrates is becoming popular. Agricultural producers choose this way of production due to the high cost of commercial substrates as well as their lack of accessibility on the market. When selecting an alternative substrate, care should be taken to have all the characteristics necessary for the unimpeded growth and development of plants (pH value, nutrients).Our work is based on two years research of the possibilities and effectiveness of alternative substrates utilization -spent mushroom substrate (button mushroom -Agaricus bisporus) and impact on growth and development of roots and aboveground parts of seasonal flowers transplants. As an initial planting materials rooted cuttings Pelargonium peltatum L. and Pelargonium zonale L were used. Measurements of morphological parameters of growth and development of plants (plant height, number of leaves, buds, flowers and flower branches) were performed, as well as determination of fresh and dry weight of roots and above-ground parts of transplants.Application of spent mushroom substrate (as alternative substrate) in the production of geraniums Pelargonium peltatum L. und Pelargonium zonale L. positively influenced growth and development of morphological parameters and the fresh and dry weight of roots and above-ground parts of treated plants compared to non-tretated plants during two growing seasons.

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Impact of Using Leached Spent Mushroom Compost as a Partial Growing Media for Horticultural Plants

Cited by 39 publications

References 13 publications

Amelioration of Composts for Greenhouse Vegetable Plants Using Pasteurised Agaricus Mushroom Substrate

Amelioration of Composts for Greenhouse Vegetable Plants Using Pasteurised Agaricus Mushroom Substrate

Bioremediation of Waste Water to Remove Heavy Metals Using the Spent Mushroom Substrate of Agaricus bisporus

Alternative Substrate Use in Geranium Transplants Production (Pelargonium peltatum L. and Pelargonium zonale L.)

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