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Abstract: The degree of maturity at which mushrooms are harvested has an influence on the total yield. Bonner, et al (1) found the mushroom sporocarp continues to increase in weight until a later stage of maturity. Rasmussen (in Cooke and Flegg, 3) compared the effect on yield and average weight per sporocarp between two stages, closed and open fruiting bodies. The results showed that greater yields were obtained from the later stage of development. Cooke and Flegg (2), picking four stages of development, found a difference in the weight and also found a large difference between the number of mushrooms harvested from each stage. Cooke and Flegg (3) found the weight of the crop and the average weight of sporocarp increased progressively with the later maturity stages at harvest time and also found a decrease in the number of mushrooms harvested at later stages of maturity.
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