Soya, Rice And Acacia Wastes As Substrates For The Cultivation Of The Edible Mushroom Pieurolus Pulmonarius
ABSTRACT
Humanity's use of mushroom extents back to Paleolithic
times. Few people even anthropologists comprehend how influential mushrooms
have been in the course of human evolution. Mushrooms have played pivotal roles
in ancient Greece, India and Mesoamerica. True to their beguiling nature, Fungi
have always elicited deep emotional responses from adulation by those who
understand them to outright fear by those who do not (Stament, 1993). According
to Davis and Aegerter, (2000), a mushroom is the "fruit" of certain
fungi, analogous to the apple on a tree. Most of the fungus goes unseen as it
colonizes and absorbs nutrients from wood, fallen leaves and organic matter in
soil. As a group, fungi can grow on almost any carbon source (a substrate). A
fungus is composed of tubular, branched filaments known as hyphae (a mass of
the individual hyphae is called a mycelium). Many fungi, including some that
form mushrooms are saprophytes, obtaining their food by colonizing dea4 organic
matter. If a mycelium thrives, it will eventually have enough energy to reproduce.
When the combination of temperature, relative Humidity, carbon dioxide levels
are just right, the fungus will develop a highly organized structure called a
mushroom. The mushroom releases millions of spores, which function like the
seeds of plants. A number of these saprophytic Fungi are cultivated for edible mushrooms.
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ELLJFULE, O (2021). Soya, Rice And Acacia Wastes As Substrates For The Cultivation Of The Edible Mushroom Pieurolus Pulmonarius. Repository.mouau.edu.ng: Retrieved Nov 21, 2024, from https://repository.mouau.edu.ng/work/view/soya-rice-and-acacia-wastes-as-substrates-for-the-cultivation-of-the-edible-mushroom-pieurolus-pulmonarius-7-2
ONYINYECHI, ELLJFULE. "Soya, Rice And Acacia Wastes As Substrates For The Cultivation Of The Edible Mushroom Pieurolus Pulmonarius" Repository.mouau.edu.ng. Repository.mouau.edu.ng, 08 Jul. 2021, https://repository.mouau.edu.ng/work/view/soya-rice-and-acacia-wastes-as-substrates-for-the-cultivation-of-the-edible-mushroom-pieurolus-pulmonarius-7-2. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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ONYINYECHI, ELLJFULE. "Soya, Rice And Acacia Wastes As Substrates For The Cultivation Of The Edible Mushroom Pieurolus Pulmonarius" Repository.mouau.edu.ng (2021). Accessed 21 Nov. 2024. https://repository.mouau.edu.ng/work/view/soya-rice-and-acacia-wastes-as-substrates-for-the-cultivation-of-the-edible-mushroom-pieurolus-pulmonarius-7-2