Valuing the Suitable Agro-Industrial Wastes for Cultivation of P. platypus and P. eous

Abstract

2 Abstract: Mushrooms have been a food supplement in various cultures and they are cultivated and eaten for their edibility and delicacy. They fall between the best vegetables and animal protein source. Mushroom consider as a distinctive food since the beginning of human evolution. As a fruit body of an edible white rot fungus, oyster mushroom belongs to Pleurotus, Pleurotaceae, Agaricales and Basidiomycota. Two species of oyster mushroom were grown on different substrates like Paddy straw, Sorghum stem, Varagu straw and Sugarcane trash. The biochemical analysis confirms that the protein, carbohydrates, lipids and amino acids in Pleurotus eous (APK1) and Pleurotus platypus (PP) were found to be altered by the substrates. In the present investigation, the protein, carbohydrate, lipid and amino acid contents were maximum in Pleurotus eous (APK1) and Pleurotus platypus (PP) when the paddy straw was used as a substrate.