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 species
Flush (grams)
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
Total
BE in%
P. citrinopileatus
286.36 ± 0.55a
102.72 ± 0.36e
66.22 ± 0.55a
36.00 ± 0.50e
491.32 ± 0.60a
40.94 ± 0.50e
P. eryngii
169.00 ± 0.63b
94.00 ± 0.51f
52.86 ± 0.51b
17.14 ± 0.60f
332.94 ± 0.57b
27.74 ± 0.40f
P. ostreatus
297.82 ± 0.54c
204.32 ± 0.53g
145.85 ± 0.61c
76.00 ± 0.13g
724.00 ± 0.74c
60.33 ± 0.58g
P. sapidus
293.80 ± 0.54d
197.34 ± 0.72h
130.53 ± 0.57d
47.00 ± 0.43h
668.67 ± 0.71d
55.72 ± 0.62h
All values are means of triplicates ± SD. Levels not connected by the same letter under the same column are significantly different ().