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 8

Mycelia dry weight of the four Pleurotus species grown on liquid medium containing pectin as the only carbon source for two weeks.

Pleurotus speciesMycelia dry weight (milligram)

Pleurotus citrinopileatus130 ± 0.46a
Pleurotus eryngii572 ± 0.81c
Pleurotus ostreatus650 ± 0.73b
Pleurotus sapidus784 ± 0.51d

All values are means of triplicates ± SD. Levels not connected by same letter under the same column are significantly different (p ≤ 0.05).