A NOVEL METHOD OF ECONOMICAL CULTIVATION OF MEDICINALLY IMPORTANT MUSHROOM, GANODERMA LUCIDUM
AbstractGanoderma lucidum has been widely used as a herbal medicine in many pacific countries. Ithas been worshipped as a kind of herbal medicine, the emperors of the great Japanese and Chinese dynasties drank with their special teas and mushroom concoctions to achieve greater vitality and longer life. A protocol has been developed for the cultivation of G. lucidum on billets of Poplar (Populus deltoides). The advantage of the present method of cultivation is that the side branch piece obtained after pruning and lopping of poplar trees used which is an easily available material in poplar growing areas of north India. The economics and profitability of G. lucidum cultivationhas been also worked out.
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2033-2037
576KB
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English
IJPSR
Sona Singh*, N.S.K. Harsh and P.K. Gupta
Forest Pathology Division, Forest Research Institute, Dehradun-248006, Uttarakhand, India
sona.singh13@gmail.com
26 November, 2013
26 February, 2014
26 April, 2014
http://dx.doi.org/10.13040/IJPSR.0975-8232.5(4).2033-37
01, May 2014
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