Edible mushroom production technologyusing coconut residues

摘要

Mushrooms have been used for culinary purpose from the time immemorial, not only because of its flavour and texture, but also because as it is good for health. Mushrooms are fleshy, macroscopic fruiting bodies of fungi and are technically called 'sporophores'. Though mushrooms grow on soil surface and are shortlived, their fungal mycelium grows below ground which massive and extensively spread but is also long-lived.