Pleurotus spp. cultivation on Brachiaria sp. straw treatment with alkaline water

Abstract

The aim of this research was to evaluate the efficiency of aqueous alkali-treated Brachiaria straw for the cultivation of appropriate species of oyster mushroom. The substrate used in the cultivation of various Pleurotus spp. was soaked for 20min by using two different procedures: (i) 0.5-2.0% Ca(OH) in 100L water, and (ii) 50-250L water. As a result, 1% Ca(OH) dissolved in 100L water and 3.5kg of Brachiaria straw presented the best production. The most suitable species for the application of the present method were P. pulmonarius and P. sapidus. The success of this technique is directly related to the concentration of Ca(OH) and water, the species, and the origin and quality of raw material used as the substrate in the production of oyster mushroom.

Production and characterization of reconstituted strains of Pleurotus spp. cultivated on different agricultural wastes

“…The studies that are carried out in the determination of the growth kinetics of edible fungi are in liquid mycelium cultures (Kim et al, 2002;Aminuddin et al, 2013;Loshchinina and Nikitina, 2016), but in commercial production of these fungi requires mycelial growth in solid substrates, such as different lignocellulosic materials (Barshteyn and Krupodorova 2016;Iossi et al, 2018). For this reason, in this study the culture was carried out in two solid media using 4 mathematical models to determine maximum specific growth rate (µ max ) and the duration of the latency phase (λ), necessary parameters for characterization of fungal strains (López et al, 2004).…”

MODELING OF MYCELIAL GROWTH OF PARENTAL, HYBRID AND RECONSTITUTED STRAINS OF Pleurotus AND Lentinula

“…The five genera of edible fungi with more production in the world are: Lentinula (22%), Pleurotus (19%), Auricularia (17%), Agaricus (15%) and Flammulina (11%) (Royse et al, 2017;. Pleurotus is the genus with the highest diversity of any other cultivated fungi in different agricultural wastes (Singh and Kamal, 2017;García-Reyes et al, 2017;Vásquez-Véliz et al, 2018;Iossi et al, 2018;Kuss et al, 2018), while Lentinula edodes mushrooms are characterized for their high nutritional value (Reis et al, 2012;Zengin et al, 2015). Both genera are considered important source of proteins, vitamins and minerals (Manzi et al, 1999;Álvarez-Cervantes et al, 2016).…”

Biodegradation of cocoa shell by phytopatogenic fungi for Pleurotus ostreatus production

“…One of the most important use of agricultural wastes: olive cake, tomato tuff, pine needles, wheat straw, banana leaves, leaf of hazelnut, cotton waste, maize stover, palm oil and other wastes is the production of edible fungi like Pleurotus spp. (Alananbeh et al, 2014;Iossi et al, 2018), their cultivation on a variety of agricultural wastes has the advantage of putting these wastes to some use and thus alleviating the incidence of environmental pollution (Lowor and Ofori, 2018). Pleurotus spp.…”