Evaluation of different grains and supplements for production of quality spawn of different mushrooms

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  • SACHIN GUPTA*, SANDEEP KUMAR, MONI GUPTA ANAMIKA MANTOO and RANBIR SINGH

Abstract

Effect of different grain substrates and supplements on the quality spawn production of different mushrooms was evaluated in the present paper and the results revealed that sorghum grain spawn was the best in terms of mycelial growth in all the three mushrooms viz. A. bisporus, P. florida and C. indica. The trend in number of days taken for full growth of spawn prepared using different substrates was just reverse to the trend of different substrates promoting the mycelial growth of spawn. Spawn run time for bags spawned using sorghum grain based spawn was minimum (16.33 days in A. bisporus,19.66 days in P. florida and 14.66 days in C. indica). In respect of days for pin head formation in A. bisporus, minimum number of days i.e. 35.33, 36.00 and 36.33 days were observed for for sorghum, maize and wheat grains respectively. In P. florida sorghum, maize and wheat took the minimum time of 30.66, 31.66 and 31.66 days respectively for pin head formation. Sorghum spawn recorded highest number of fruiting bodies (22.00) while maize supplemented with gram husk gave minimum number of fruiting bodies (19.00) in case of A. bisporus. In P. florida, sorghum spawn had the highest number of fruiting bodies (63.33). In C. indica, sorghum recorded highest number of fruiting bodies (11.00) which was statistically at par with maize (10.66). In terms of biological efficiency, similar results were obtained in all the three mushrooms viz. A. bisporus, P. florida and C. indica where sorghum spawn had the highest biological efficiency which was statistically at par with biological efficiency of maize. In terms of economic cropping period, sorghum, maize and wheat spawn were reported to be statistically at par having the economic cropping period of 81.00, 82.00 and 82.66 days respectively in A. bisporus. In case of economic cropping period of P. florida, sorghum spawn had the minimum economic cropping period (71.66 days) which was statistically at par with maize (72.66 days). For C. indica, sorghum had the smallest economic cropping period (70.33 days) followed by maize (76.66 days).

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Vol. 69 No. 4s (2016): Indian Phytopathology : Special Issue

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ANAMIKA MANTOO and RANBIR SINGH, S. G. S. K. M. G. (2016). Evaluation of different grains and supplements for production of quality spawn of different mushrooms. Indian Phytopathology, 69(4s), 706-711. http://epubs.icar.org.in/ejournal/index.php/IPPJ/article/view/71428