Abstract:
An experiment was carried out at the Tissue Culture Laboratory and Culture House of
Mushroom Development Institute, Savar, Dhaka, during the period from July 2019 to
December 2019 to find out the performance of different amount of maize straw substrates on
the growth and yield of oyster mushroom. The experiment consisted of three varieties, viz. V
1
(Pleurotus djamor), V
2
(Pleurotus florida) and V
3
(Pleurotus ostreatus) and five different
amount of maize straw substrates with 10% mother culture such as T
1
= 500g per packet, T
2
=
750 g per packet, T
3
= 1000 g per packet, T
4
= 1500 g per packet and T
5
= 2000 g per packet.
The experiment was laid out in Completely Randomized Design (CRD) with four
replications. Significant variation was found in all parameter due to the effect of different
amount of maize straw substrates. The highest number of fruiting body (19.00), number of
effective fruiting body (12.08) and highest yield (128.67g) were recorded in T
3
treatment. On
the other hand, variety of mushroom showed influence on all parameter. The maximum yield
(92.60 g), the highest number of fruiting body (17.80), number of effective fruiting body
(11.10) were observed in V
2
variety. The combination between different variety of oyster
mushroom and different amount of maize straw substrates was found significant variation on
the yield. The maximum yield (164.75g) was produced by V
2
T
3
treatment
and the minimum
yield (49.75g) was produced by V
1
T
1
which followed by V
1
T
5
treatment.
Description:
A Thesis
Submitted to the Department of Horticulture, Faculty of Agriculture,
Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka in partial
fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of
MASTER OF SCIENCE (MS)
IN
HORTICULTURE
