Cultivation of Pleurotus ostreatus on Agricultural Wastes and Their Combination

Table 2

Morphological parameters of Pleurotus ostreatus mushroom grown on different agricultural wastes and their combination.

Treatments	Spawn running in days	Appearance of pinheads in days	Days for fruiting body formation	Pileus diameter in centimeter	Fresh weight of fruiting bodies (g)	Biological efficiency
T1 = CC	28.71^d ± 0.80	32.36^d ± 0.26	5.19^b ± 0.74	4.00^ab ± 0.79	144.18^e ± 0.98	41.07^b ± 0.37
T2 = FMS	34.88^b ± 0.69	38.22^b ± 124	5.20^b ± 1.46	4.58^a ± 0.15	253^a.07 ± 1.05	50.20^a ± 0.47
T3 = BW	43.79^a ± 1.54	48.10^a ± 0.79	5.28^b ± 0.59	2.99^b ± 1.61	180.79^d ± 0.56	35.07^abc ± 0.77
T4 = CC + FMS	30.99^c ± 1.0	35.75^c ± 1.50	4.64^b ± 1.23	3.37^ab ± 0.49	233.74^b ± 0.42	49.12^a ± 1.11
T5 = CC + BW	43.45^a ± 0.95	47.84^d ± 0.73	12.13^a ± 1.25	2.95^b ± 0.41	101.48^f ± 0.91	20.80^abd ± 0.41
T6 = FMS + BW	36.55^b ± 0.95	39.08^b ± 0.72	6.24^b ± 0.73	3.40^ab ± 0.85	211.11^c ± 0.98	42.27b ± 0.78
CV%	2.84	2.55	16.37	24.09	0.45	1.77
LSD	1.83	1.71	1.87	1.52	1.52	1.25

CC: corncob; FMS: finger millet straw; BW: bamboo waste. Mean values within a column sharing the same superscript letters are not significantly different using the LSD test at .