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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

2003, Volume5

112 pages

DOI: 10.1615/InterJMedicMush.v5.i3

Issue price - $128.00

The Action of Argon and Helium–Neon Laser Radiation on Growth and Fructification of Culinary–Medicinal Mushrooms Pleurotus ostreatus (Jacq.:Fr.) Kumm., Lentinus edodes (Berk.) Singer, and Hericium erinaceus(Bull.:Fr.)Pers.

Natalia L. Poyedinok
M. G. Kholodny Institute of Botany, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Tereshchenkivska Str. 2, Kiev, GSP-1, 01601, Ukraine

Asja S. Buchalo
M. G. Kholodny Institute of Botany National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Tereshchenovskaya Str., 2, Kiev 01601, Ukraine

Anatoliy M. Negriyko
Institute of Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Science Av.46, 01022, Ukraine

Janna V. Potemkina
Institute of Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Science Av.46, 01022, Ukraine

Oksana B. Mykchaylova
M.G. Kholodny Institute of Botany, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine

ABSTRACT

The influence of helium–neon and argon laser light on the mycelial growth and fruit-body production of culinary–medicinal mushrooms Lentinus edodes, Pleurotus ostreatus, and Hericium erinaceus were investigated. It is shown that irradiation by red and green light stimulates vegetative mycelium growth on different substrates and shortens the substrates' colonization and fructification. The increased fruit-body yield in irradiated cultures reached 36–51%.