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G V Reddy1, I L Kothari, A Mishra
1Department of Biosciences, Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar 388 120, India.
Abstract:
Pseudostems and leaves from banana waste were used for biotransformation into protein by using P. sajor-caju, an oyster mushroom. Treatment of formalin (500 ppm) + carbendazim (12.5 ppm) of these substrates was found to favour relatively high percentage biological efficiency (BE) of P. sajor-caju.. Steam sterilization also exhibited comparable yield performance by P. sajor-caju. Fruiting bodies harvested from all the treatments had relatively higher protein contents. The spent substrate (steam sterilized) was found to be suitable as an ideal animal feed because of its rich nutritive composition.
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