cff-version: 1.2.0
abstract: "Button mushrooms (Agaricus bisporus) are cultivated on a substrate prepared of composted wheat straw, chicken and/or horst manure and gypsum. <br>This manuscript describes a number of experiments indicating that in a harvesting strategy towards quality mushrooms there is a fixed amount <br>of nutrients prepared/available to feed two flushes. The increase of mycelial biomass in the substrate after venting and especially during the <br>development of flush one indicates that likely a branching of mycelium occurs during this period, leading to a substantial number of growing <br>hyphal tips excreting lignocellulolytic enzymes that degrade substrate and make nutrients available during flush one which are utilised in <br>flush one and two. The presently used substrate seems to have reached its limits and there are hardly opportunities for further improvement. <br>Research on alternative, more energy dense, substrates are needed to improve the efficiency of the present production system."
authors:
  - family-names: Hendrickx
    given-names: Patrick
  - family-names: Baars
    given-names: Johan
    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0692-7371"
  - family-names: Hendrix
    given-names: Ed
title: "Data underlying the publication “Feeding growing mushrooms”."
keywords:
version: 1
identifiers:
  - type: doi
    value: 10.4121/19285106.v1
license: CC BY 4.0
date-released: 2022-03-03