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Volume 14 Part 1 Article 36
Year 1995
Title: Growth measurement of Agaricus mycelium in composted substrates as an indicator of compost selectivity and mushroom productivity
Authors: J.F. Smith, D.A. Wood and C.F. Thurston

Abstract:

A range of composts differing in degree of degradation and nitrogen content, and suitable for the culture of Agaricus bisporus, were produced by subjecting a commercially prepared compost to further periods of composting at 45 or 55°C. Mycelial extension rates through compost (using the 'race-tube' technique) and fungal biomass estimated by measurement of the extracellular enzyme, laccase (E.C. 1.10.3.2) were related to differences in compost composition and mushroom yield.

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