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

Table 5

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

Pleurotus species	Flush (grams)
	1^st	2^nd	3^rd	4^th	Total	BE in %
P. citrinopileatus	281.00 ± 0.55^a	145.50 ± 0.80^e	58.43 ± 0.54^a	11.75 ± 0.88^e	496.68 ± 0.80^a	41.39 ± 0.41^e
P. eryngii	186.34 ± 0.50^b	103.23 ± 0.91^f	45.82 ± 0.80^b	25.80 ± 0.79^f	361.20 ± 0.96^b	30.10 ± 0.52^f
P. ostreatus	352.96 ± 0.64^c	205.64 ± 0.32^g	138.00 ± 0.85^c	46.50 ± 0.36^g	743.10 ± 0.68^c	61.92 ± 0.37^g
P. sapidus	318.44 ± 0.90^d	202.68 ± 0.80^h	164.70 ± 0.57^d	57.27 ± 0.32^h	697.96 ± 0.60^d	58.16 ± 0.77^h

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