Vol. 11, Issue 11 (2022)

Author(s):
Mukesh Kumar Prajapati, Sobita Simon and Abhilasha A Lal

Abstract:
A research was conducted during 2018 to determine the performance of different substrate for the production of Oyster mushroom. The research was carried out by growing Pleurotus florida species of (Oyster Mushroom), on nine different substrates namely Wheat Straw, Banana leaves, Sarpat grass, Saw dust, Paddy straw, Paddy husk, Ragi leaves, Maize leaves, Bamboo leaves under one factor CRD design with three replication during winter with an average daily temperature of 18 °C- 25 °C and RH ranging from 80 to 100%. Among the nine different treatments paddy straw was found to be suitable as it obtained more total yield (374.17 gm.) per followed by other substrates. The sarpat grass gave lowest yield i.e. (195.08 gm.) which may be due to presence of different phenolic compounds. The duration of first mycelium colonization, fruiting and harvesting was shorter in paddy straw followed by other substrates and longer in Banana leaves. Longer stipe length was obtained from paddy straw (7.66 cm) and width of pileus was obtained from paddy straw (8.83 cm) followed by other substrates.