Abstract:
An experiment was carried out to find out the effect of hot water treated wheat straw on
the growth and yield of oyster mushroom
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for 3 hours. The duration
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for 3 hours. Average number of primordia
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C for 2 hours. Oyster mushroom grown on wheat straw treated at 80
C
for 1 hours gave the highest average number of fruiting body/packet
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C for 3 hours. The highest average weight of individual fruiting body
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C for 1 hour. The highest diameter of stalk
C for 3
hours. The highest average length of stipe
C for 2 hours.
Oyster mushroom grown on wheat straw treated at 80
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C for 3 hours gave the highest
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biological yield
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C for 3 hours may be recommended as an economically
effective treatment to grow oyster mushroom (
