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International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms

ISSN for PRINT: 1521-9437

Institutional price:	$538.00
Issues per year:	4

Best Paper Award Selection - Editorial Board Site

2000, Volume2

84 pages

Issue price - $128.00

Cultivation of Hohenbuehelia atrocaerulea (Fr.) Sing. (Agaricomycetideae): A Mushroom with Nematicidal Potential

Shrikant M. Kuikarni
Mycology and Plant Pathology Group, Plant Sciences Division, Agharkar Research Institute, Agarkar Road, Pune 411 004. India

Sangita Dighe
Plant Sciences Division, Mycology Group, Agharkar Research Institute, G. G. Agarkar Road, Pune 411 004, Maharashtra, India

ABSTRACT

The mushroom Hohenbuehelia atrocaerulea (Fr.) Sing. was cultivated for the first time on paddy straw to produce a sustained supply of basidiocarps to investigate their nematicidal potential. The biological efficiency of this mushroom was found to be 22.33%. In vitro assays with crude extract of the basidiocarps resulted in 48% mortality of the infective larvae of plant parasitic nematode Meloidogyne spp.