Week 8- Spawn production
In the spawn-production process, mycelium from a mushroom culture is placed onto steam-sterilized grain, and in time the mycelium completely grows through the grain. This grain/mycelium mixture is called spawn, and spawn is used to “seed” mushroom compost.
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Course Material
- Week-1-Introduction to Fungi, what are mushrooms? Mushrooms and toad stools.
- Week 2. History of mushrooms
- Week 3. Global Trade of Mushrooms and biology and cultivation of edible fungi in Pakistan
- Week 4. What is nutrition? Nutritional and medicinal importance of edible fungi.
- Week 5. Mushroom as food in our diet.
- Week 6. Study of different parts of typical mushrooms
- Week 7. Some commonly cultivated edible mushrooms
- Week 8- Spawn production
- Week 9. MID EXAM
- Week 10. Methods of Mushroom Cultivation
- Week 11. Concept of mushroom technology, different phases of composting in mushroom cultivation
- Week 12. Mushroom cultivation-Spawning, Casing, Pinning and Cropping
- Week 13. Cultivation of oyster mushroom, its Nutritional and dietary importance
- Week 14. Diseases of Mushrooms- Fungal diseases of mushrooms
- Week 15. Bacterial and viral diseases of Mushrooms
- Week 16. Common insect pests and Nematode infestation in Mushroom crop
- Final Exam
- Chapters 17
- Department Plant Pathology
- Teacher
Dr. Asma Safdar
