Evaluation of five oyster mushroom species grown on corn stalks to be used as animal feed

摘要

The present work was carried out to screen and test five oyster mushroom strains, brought from Institute of Forest Botany, Gottingen University, Germany, towards their ability to grow on and upgrade corn stalks during the two winter seasons of 1998 and 1999 The five strains were : "Pleurotus v. florida (8), P. ostreatus v. florida(49), P. sajor - caju (103), Pleurotus.sp. (112) and P. sajor caju (117) ". These cultures were grown on potato dextrose agar medium (PDA). A Piece of mycelium media was used to inoculate 200 g of sterile sorghum seeds in 250 ml. bottles. When the seeds were fully covered with mycelium (30 days at optimum temperature "25degreesC"), they were used to inoculate chopped, wet and pasteurized corn stalks.