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)
	1^st	2^nd	3^rd	4^th	Total	BE in%
P. citrinopileatus	286.36 ± 0.55^a	102.72 ± 0.36^e	66.22 ± 0.55^a	36.00 ± 0.50^e	491.32 ± 0.60^a	40.94 ± 0.50^e
P. eryngii	169.00 ± 0.63^b	94.00 ± 0.51^f	52.86 ± 0.51^b	17.14 ± 0.60^f	332.94 ± 0.57^b	27.74 ± 0.40^f
P. ostreatus	297.82 ± 0.54^c	204.32 ± 0.53^g	145.85 ± 0.61^c	76.00 ± 0.13^g	724.00 ± 0.74^c	60.33 ± 0.58^g
P. sapidus	293.80 ± 0.54^d	197.34 ± 0.72^h	130.53 ± 0.57^d	47.00 ± 0.43^h	668.67 ± 0.71^d	55.72 ± 0.62^h

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