Cultivation of culinary delicacy and medicinally accredited mushroom Lentinula edodes: A review Kumar Jitendra, Himanshu, Sharma S.N., Kumar Sandeep, Malik Punjab Singh* Department of Botany, Meerut College, Meerut-250001, Uttar Pradesh, India *Corresponding Author E-mail- punjabmalik@gmail.com
Online published on 20 May, 2023. Abstract Lentinula edodes is a cultivated edible mushroom which is native to the East Asia region. Lentinula edodes was initially cultivated on natural wood logs and in due course of time, its cultivation shifted on synthetic bag log of sawdust. Researchers are conducting studies to find an alternative of sawdust as substrate. Various other agro-wastes such as hazelnut husk, wheat straw, corncobs, cocoa husk, cotton waste, coir pith, almond bark, walnut shell, olive waste, chickpea straw, corn stalk, alfalfa hay, sunflower head residue, vineyard pruning waste, paddy straw, sugar cane bagasse and others have been used for cultivation of shiitake mushroom. At present, much more advance cultivation technology and suitable substrate formulation is needed to promote the cultivation of shiitake mushroom in our country. Top Keywords Lentinula edodes, Shiitkae, Synthetic bag log, Natural log, Quercus spp. Top |