Different Types of Mushrooms There are many different kinds of mushrooms. One of the most common of them are Pleurotus Ostreatus (oyster mushroom), Pleurotus eryngii (King Oyster), Agaricus subrufescens (almond mushroom), hypsizygus ulmarius (white elm mushroom or elm oyster), Hypsizygus tessulatus (shimeji), Coprinus comatus (shaggy mane), Lentinula edodes (shiitake), Hericium erinaceus (Lios' Mane), and Grifola Frondosa (maitake). Out of these, the most commonly grown are Sporophores which
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INTRODUCTION People have harvested mushrooms from the wild for thousands of years for food and medicines. Mushrooms are fleshy fruiting bodies (Alexopoulos et al., 1996) that are considered one of the delicious fruits, and are commonly produced worldwide (Madbouly and Al-Hussainy, 1996). The cultivation of edible mushrooms is a world wide important commercial activity (Chang, 2000). Several aspects have con-tributed to the development of this activity: (1) the raw materials used are waste from
RESULTS Brunei Agricultural Research Centre has produced three commercialized mushrooms which are locally known as Rose Sabah (straw) mushroom, Tiram (oyster) mushroom and Tembibir mushroom. Oyster mushroom scientifically falls under the genus Pleurotus while Tembibir (Fig. 5) belongs to Auricularia genus and Rose Sabah (Fig. 6) belongs Volvariella genus. These mushrooms are classified as “Basidiomycota”. 4.0
Health Benefits of Mushroom * Dr.K.Ramamurthi ** Dr.R.Geethalakshmi ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Cultivating mushrooms is a great way to accelerate the decay of the stump." -Larry Robertson A mushroom or toadstool is the fleshy, spore-bearing
Annotated Bibliography "An Ocean Of Trash." Scholastic Action 33.12 (2010): 16. MasterFILE Complete. Web. 31 Jan. 2014. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is the largest garbage dump in the world. According to estimates made by experts, the patch holds approximately three and a half million tons of garbage. Majority of this garbage is made of plastic. This waste is a threatening problem to the patch’s surrounding wildlife. Many animals are caught in the floating pieces of trash and it is the cause