The use of composted woodchip as a substrate for growing varieties of edible mushrooms

10864 1 archive 4832 disk0/00/01/08/64 2007-06-19 2009-08-20 14:36:30 2009-08-20 14:36:30 report show 0 en uk-ocw uk-adas never 0 TRUE Frost D Clarke A The use of composted woodchip as a substrate for growing varieties of edible mushrooms pub 3compost mushrooms, substrate, woodchip The world market for edible mycorrhizal mushrooms has experienced considerable growth over the past two decades with annual production estimated to exceed 14 billion USD. The market continues to grow due to interest in the nutritional and health benefits of edible mushrooms. The size of the market for speciality mushrooms has also increased and the overall market trend has been towards fresh rather than canned product. There are a number of different cultural methods in commercial use, with a wide variety of species produced on different substrates. The aim of this project was to evaluate woodchip compost as a substrate to produce edible mushrooms. Woodchip compost appears to have potential as a growing medium but more development is necessary to make this a commercial proposition. This report sets out these findings in more detail. 2006-01 published Organic Centre Wales Chen, A.W., Stamets, P. and N.L. Huang 1999. Compost-Substrate fermentation and alternatives for successful production of Agaricus blazei. In Broderick, Andrew and Tan Nair (ed.), 3rd International Conference on Mushroom Biology and Mushroom Products. Sydney, Australia, October 1999 Chen, A.W. 2003. A practical Guide to the Cultivation of Agricus blazei, a Mushroom of Culinary and Biomedical Importance http://www.mushworld.com/tech/view.asp?cline=2&cata_id=1160&vid=5791 Huang, N-L 1997. Brazilian mushroom (Gee Song Rong), in Huang, (ed.), Cultivation of Eighteen rare and precious gourmet mushrooms. Beijing, China: Chinese Agricultural Press, pp 95-101 Iwade, I. And T. Mizuno 1997. Cultivation of Kawariharatake. Food Review International, 13, 383, Nov 1997 Kyung Wha Choi 2004. Mushroom growers’ handbook 1, chapter 07) www.mushworld.com Oei, P. 1996. Mushroom Cultivation (for developing countries). Leiden: Tool Publications, pp 143-160 Okubo, J., K Kuramoto and S. Ohkybo 1991. Method of cultivating Agricus blazei mushroom. United States Patent 5,048,227 Stamets, P. 1999. Mycomedicinals, an informational booklet on medicinal mushrooms. Olympia, Washington: MycoMedia publication Websites: http://www.14u.co.nz/st.htm. http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/facultry/wong/BOT135/Lect18.htm. public 7885 1 10864 1 application/pdf en public

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