Abstract
Oyster mushrooms are fleshy edible fungi which acquire huge importance due to their nutritional and
medicinal properties. These mushrooms are cultivated upon various substrates which directly affect
the yield and time taken to reach the maturity. So the present experiment was designed to study
different weeds, agricultural wastes and their mixtures for efficacy regarding time taken to achieve
100% mycelial growth and yield attributes. Our results illustrated that cotton waste showed better
performance as substrate as it took minimum days i.e. 20.5 followed by Chenopodium album and
mixture of cotton waste + Chenopodium album which relatively taken 24.5 days to reach maximum
growth level. These substrates also provided better yield as compared to all other substrates by
recording 650.36, 583.41 and 530.43 grams yield respectively. The performance of all other substrates
was below power. Hence we conclude that Chenopodium album anonymously or mixture of particular
weed and cotton waste can be utilized for efficient cultivation of mushrooms.
Waqar Islam, Asif Riaz, Madiha Zaynab, Wu Zujian. (2016) EFFICACY OF DIFFERENT WEEDS AND AGRICULTURAL SUBSTRATES FOR CULTIVATION OF PLEUROTUS OSTREATUS (JACQ. FR.), Asian Journal of Agriculture and Biology, Volume 4, Issue 4.
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