Comparative Growth and Nutritional Study of Oyster Small Mushroom (Pleurotus ostreatus)

Mushrooms, the edible macro-fungi, have been allured as delicious and nutritious cuisine along with their immense medicinal importance. Naturally, mushrooms grow on wastes, garbage, trees, and trunks and on moist landscape. Naturally occurring and human leftovers of different food stuffs could be rich sources of mushroom cultivation that would reduce environmental nuisance as well as positively impact on fulfilling the nutritional demand of the ever increasing humanity. Present study explores comparative growth pattern of the oyster small (OS) mushroom, Pleurotus ostreatus on different amount of rice straw as substrate (100g, 200g, 500g, 1000 g/packet) followed by nutritional assessment of the mushrooms grown on each of the substrate’s packet. Mushrooms grown on 200g packet contained the highest nutritional values as evaluated in the present study. Thus, current findings would aid highly in formulating cultivation of Pleurotus ostreatus on rice straw with a view to providing nutritional support to the humanity.