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T1 - Data underlying the publication “Feeding growing mushrooms”.
PY - 2022/03/03
AU - Patrick Hendrickx
AU - Johan Baars
AU - Ed Hendrix
UR - https://data.4tu.nl/articles/dataset/Data_underlying_the_publication_Feeding_growing_mushrooms_/19285106/1
DO - 10.4121/19285106.v1
KW - Agaricus bisporus
KW - Mushroom quality
KW - mushroom substrate
KW - mycelial biomass
KW - fruiting body biomass
KW - flush yield
KW - substrate limitation
N2 - 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.
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