12.00 Normal 0 false false false EN-IN X-NONE HI The consumption of mushrooms probably occurred during prehistory, in the hunting and gathering period. The Chinese and Japanese have utilized mushrooms for medicinal purposes for thousands of years. The mushroom was first cultivated in France in 1960. It was then taken up in England and from there it spread to rest of the world. Today, Covid-19 pandemic has affected people directly or indirectly in different ways. The number of people in the world is facing the problem of hunger, malnutrition, poverty and unemployment as...
Tuesday, 5 October 2021
Saturday, 25 September 2021
SUPPLEMENTATION OF ANIMAL WASTES AND ITS IMPACT ON YIELD OF ELM OYSTER MUSHROOM HYPSIZYGUS ULMARIUS
Animal wastes are generated worldwide in a huge amount. Disposal of this bulk waste is a global environmental problem accounting to pollution of soil and ground water sources. Because of these wastes are nutritionally rich, so these can be used as supplements in the mushroom industry. In present study, few wastes viz., Chicken feather (CF), Fish scale (FS) and Sheep hair (SH) were evaluated as supplement @15% on dry weight basis of substrate for enhancing yield and biological efficiency of elm oyster mushroom Hypsizygus ulmarius. Wheat straw (WS) was used as a growing medium....
Tuesday, 15 June 2021
SCLEROTIA PRODUCTION: A WAY AHEAD TO MORCHELLA CULTIVATION
ABSTRACTMorchella, the true morels, belonging to to Helvellaceae family of class Ascomycetes, are amongst the most highly prized fungi in the world. Their artificial production is still a challenge, even though patents for their cultivation do exist. The tissue of Morchella sp. was transferred aseptically to Potato Dextrose Agar medium (peeled, sliced and boiled potato, 200 g; dextrose, 20 g; agar, 20 g L-1) to grow hyphae. The mycelium showed fastest growth as compared to other edible mushrooms. It covered entire area of Petri plate (90 mm) within 4-5 days with the growth rate...
ADDITION TO THE MACRO FUNGI OF TIKRI RESERVED FOREST, GONDA (U.P.) INDIA
EXTENDED ABSTRACT Tikri Reserved Forest of Eastern Uttar Pradesh situated in Tarabganj sub-division of Gonda district (U.P.) lying at 26°20′06″N latitude and on 82°15′40″E longitude. It is spread over an area of 70 km2 which is characterized by typical terai landscape. This area is very rich in vegetation with Sal (Shorea robusta) and Teak forests (Tectona grandis) as the main tree species. It also harbours a rich diversity of economical and medicinal plant species, mainly confined to the peripheral region of the forest. Along with affluent flora, the reserve forest is also endowed with many...
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