Published in Scientific Bulletin. Series F. Biotechnologies, Vol. XXIII
Written by Gabriela ȚEȚU
The excessive and long-term accumulation of large amounts of redundant lignocellulose materials, as outcome wastes from the specific activities of all fruit tree farms across the whole country in Romania, has become a huge problem which needs to be solved by using biological means for their conversion into beneficial products. Thus, the main aim of this work was to solve this problem by recycling the fruit tree wastes through organic cultivation of two mushroom species, Ganoderma lucidum and Pleurotus ostreatus. The fruit body productions of each one of these mushroom species registered the highest levels as 1,830 g for G. lucidum and 2,750 g for P. ostreatus, relative to 5 kg of substrates made of fruit tree wastes. According to these results, the suitable biotechnological procedures for recycling of apple, plum and cherry tree wastes through organic cultivation of mentioned mushroom species is presented in this paper.
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