Research Article

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

Table 6

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

Pleurotus speciesFlush (grams)
1st2nd3rd4thTotalBE in%

P. citrinopileatus286.36 ± 0.55a102.72 ± 0.36e66.22 ± 0.55a36.00 ± 0.50e491.32 ± 0.60a40.94 ± 0.50e
P. eryngii169.00 ± 0.63b94.00 ± 0.51f52.86 ± 0.51b17.14 ± 0.60f332.94 ± 0.57b27.74 ± 0.40f
P. ostreatus297.82 ± 0.54c204.32 ± 0.53g145.85 ± 0.61c76.00 ± 0.13g724.00 ± 0.74c60.33 ± 0.58g
P. sapidus293.80 ± 0.54d197.34 ± 0.72h130.53 ± 0.57d47.00 ± 0.43h668.67 ± 0.71d55.72 ± 0.62h

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