General Introduction to Mushroom Culture
General Introduction to Mushroom Culture
Definition
WITHOUT LEAVES, WITHOUT BUDS, WITHOUT FLOWERS:
YET THEY FORM FRUIT.
AS A MEDICINE, AS A FOOD, AS A TONIC:
THE ENTIRE CREATION IS PRECIOUS.
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Life Cycle
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Introduction
• Cultivation of mushrooms as a research endeavor in Pakistan
• Only Institute of Horticultural Sciences, a degree program:
• Mushroom Science
• Common in Asian countries, in Horticulture departments.
Mushrooms may be unpalatable, and others even poisonous, the mushrooms of many species are not only edible but delicious and nutritious.
HISTORY
• Consumption of mushroom probably occurred during prehistory, in hunting and foraging period.
• Unlike plants could not be cultivated at first and was be collected a long period of Time.
• Even today, relatively few species of mushrooms can be cultivated.
← Cultivation of mushrooms in Western
cultures first recorded in 1650.
← Agaricus bisporus was first species
cultivated, on compost.
← In Asia, specifically China and Japan, it is
not known when cultivation began.
← Several species of mushrooms cultivated, on wood.
← Research work on mushroom cultivation was first initiated in Pakistan in 1975 in collaboration with the US Department of Agriculture in the Department of Horticulture,
WILD EDIBLE MUSHROOMS
Truffles Black morels
Cantharellus
Boletus
Padaxis pistillaris
Important Wild Edible mushrooms in Pakistan
• Black morels, Morchella species
• Khumbi, Podaxis pistillaris
• Khappa, Phellorina inquinanse
• Khamiri, Agaricus bitorquis
Black morels, Morchella species
Appears in Northern Areas after snow melts. 60-70 tons of morels exported annually.
Khamiri, Agaricus bitorquis
Wild edible mushrooms of Baluchistan, used for eating by local
Definition
WITHOUT LEAVES, WITHOUT BUDS, WITHOUT FLOWERS:
YET THEY FORM FRUIT.
AS A MEDICINE, AS A FOOD, AS A TONIC:
THE ENTIRE CREATION IS PRECIOUS.
[pic]
Life Cycle
[pic]
Introduction
• Cultivation of mushrooms as a research endeavor in Pakistan
• Only Institute of Horticultural Sciences, a degree program:
• Mushroom Science
• Common in Asian countries, in Horticulture departments.
Mushrooms may be unpalatable, and others even poisonous, the mushrooms of many species are not only edible but delicious and nutritious.
HISTORY
• Consumption of mushroom probably occurred during prehistory, in hunting and foraging period.
• Unlike plants could not be cultivated at first and was be collected a long period of Time.
• Even today, relatively few species of mushrooms can be cultivated.
← Cultivation of mushrooms in Western
cultures first recorded in 1650.
← Agaricus bisporus was first species
cultivated, on compost.
← In Asia, specifically China and Japan, it is
not known when cultivation began.
← Several species of mushrooms cultivated, on wood.
← Research work on mushroom cultivation was first initiated in Pakistan in 1975 in collaboration with the US Department of Agriculture in the Department of Horticulture,
WILD EDIBLE MUSHROOMS
Truffles Black morels
Cantharellus
Boletus
Padaxis pistillaris
Important Wild Edible mushrooms in Pakistan
• Black morels, Morchella species
• Khumbi, Podaxis pistillaris
• Khappa, Phellorina inquinanse
• Khamiri, Agaricus bitorquis
Black morels, Morchella species
Appears in Northern Areas after snow melts. 60-70 tons of morels exported annually.
Khamiri, Agaricus bitorquis
Wild edible mushrooms of Baluchistan, used for eating by local