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Cultivation of the Paddy Straw Mushroom, Volvariella volvacea (Bull, ex Fr.) Sing.1

1972; American Society for Horticultural Science; Volume: 7; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.21273/hortsci.7.5.461

2327-9834

James P. San Antonio, C. Fordyce,

Chemical synthesis and alkaloids

Abstract The paddy straw mushroom was grown on the type of compost commonly used to produce the cultivated mushroom, Agaricus bisporus (Lange) Sing. An appreciable quantity of light (15 min full sunlight) is required for initiation of fruit bodies. The average yield of paddy straw mushroom was 84 g mushrooms fresh wt/kg dry wt of compost at spawning time. Such production is in the range reported for straw mushroom production on rice straw in Asia but only 20% of the yield of the cultivated mushroom or champignon, A. bisporus .