Cultivation of Different Oyster Mushroom (Pleurotus species) on Coffee Waste and Determination of Their Relative Biological Efficiency and Pectinase Enzyme Production, Ethiopia

Table 3

Yield and biological efficiency of the four Pleurotus species on noncomposted coffee parchment substrate.

Pleurotus species	Flush (grams)
	1^st	2^nd	3^rd	Total	BE in%
P. citrinopileatus	126.34 ± 0.64^a	84.36 ± 0.44^e	39.65 ± 0.62^a	250.36 ± 0.50^e	20.86 ± 0.72^a
P. eryngii	108.70 ± 0.60^b	52.30 ± 0.54^f	16.48 ± 0.51^b	177.5 ± 0.31^f	14.79 ± 0.79^b
P. ostreatus	216.94 ± 0.77^c	147.27 ± 0.51^g	105.41 ± 0.42^c	469.63 ± 0.76^g	39.13 ± 0.52^c
P. sapidus	210.81 ± 0.50^d	127.47 ± 0.51^h	54.68 ± 0.50^d	392.96 ± 0.24^h	32.74 ±  0.65^d

All values are means of triplicates ± SD. Levels not connected by the same letter under the same column are significantly different ().