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

Table 4

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

Pleurotus species	Flush (grams)
	1^st	2^nd	3^rd	Total	BE in%
P. citrinopileatus	228.00 ± 0.56^a	157.00 ± 0.60^e	45.36 ± 1.00^a	430.40 ± 0.50^e	35.86 ± 0.50^a
P. eryngii	167.45 ± 0.78^b	76.91 ± 0.42^f	37.00 ± 0.48^b	281.40 ± 0.50^f	23.45 ± 0.79^b
P. ostreatus	288.00 ± 0.53^c	231.00 ± 0.52^g	144.30 ± 0.72^c	663.30 ± 0.51^g	55.27 ± 0.63^c
P. sapidus	264.81 ± 0.50^d	194.73 ± 0.61^h	106.64 ± 0.50^d	566.20 ± 0.51^h	47.18 ± 0.74^d

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