Vol. 12, Issue 9 (2023)

Author(s):
Pradeep Kumar Verma, Gopal Singh, Ramji Singh, Kamal Khilari, D.V. Singh and Satya Prakash

Abstract:
Mushroom are macro-fungi with a distinctive fruiting body which can be either epigeous hypogeous and large enough too seen with naked eye and picked by hand. Pleurotus is a genus of fungi commonly known as oyster mushrooms. It is also known as ‘‘Dhingri’’ Mushroom. The present experiment was conducted to see the study of effect of different media on mycelial growth of Pleurotus species in-vitro condition. In the experiment seven types of media viz. Malt extract agar (MEA), wheat extract agar (WEA), yeast malt agar (YMA), oat meal agar (OEA), sabouraud dextrose agar (SDA), czapek dox agar (CDA) and potato dextrose agar media was use as control with thee replications. The result showed that the maximum growth of (90 mm) was recorded in malt extract agar followed by oat meal agar (89.66mm) followed by yeast malt agar media (80.50) and minimum growth (63.33) was recorded in potato dextrose agar which was statistically lower than all treatment and the maximum dry mycelium weight (10.00 mg/100 ml) was observed in Malt extract broth (MEB) and minimum dry mycelium weight (5.66 mg/100 ml) was observed in potato dextrose broth and dry matter growth rate (mg/day) of Pleurotus species (PL-21-09), maximum dried mycelial growth rate (0.66 mg/day) was observed in malt extract broth (MEB) followed by oat meal broth (0.60 mg/day). The minimum dried mycelial growth rate (0.37 mg/day) was observed in potato dextrose broth.