Sawdust (SD) usually sourced from rubber plant is commonly used as substrate to cultivate the grey oyster mushroom Pleurotus sajor-caju in Malaysia. However, market price of SD increasing because its declining availability. Thus, this study aimed discover an alternative mushroom. The raw materials were oil palm pressed fiber (PPF), rice straw (RS) and SD, either alone or combination with differ...

The basidiomycete Pleurotus sajor-caju mineralizes ring-14C-labelled lignin (dehydrogenative polymer) when grown in mycological broth. Under these conditions, two veratryl alcohol oxidase (VAO) enzymes were found in the culture medium. They oxidized a number of aromatic alcohols to aldehydes and reduced O2 to H2O2. The enzymes were purified by ion-exchange and gel-permeation chromatography. The...

Laccase enzymes are now commercially available, and a laccase/mediator combination is currently marketed for indigo dye bleaching in textile manufacturing; replacing traditional chemical-based processes with enzymatic technology reduces the need for effluent treatment. However, an inexpensive source of these enzymes will be needed to enable wider application of this technology. In the present w...

Interspecific hybrids of Pleurotus florida PF-5 (MTCC 1801) and Pleurotus sajor-caju PSC3 (ATCC 62887) were developed using electrofusion. A concentration of 2mM vanillin and 1000ppm carbendazim were selected as screening markers for the hybrids of the two Pleurotus spp. The electrofusion using an exponential decay was best with 1000 V (2 pulses with an interval of 5 sec). With square wave disc...

Two varieties of Pleurotus sajor-caju, obtained from the wild and cultivated (on shredded corncobs) were separated into cap and stalk and analysed on dry weight basis. The proximate composition (g/100 g) showed that both varieties were highly concentrated in crude protein. The cultivated cap (Cc) was found to accumulate higher concentration of crude protein (26.34%) and ash (10.37%) than the wi...

Este artigo apresenta um estudo etnográfico sobre experiências sociais com vistas à apropriação de linguagem crianças surdas, realizado nas comunidades do Céu e Caju-Una, situadas no município Soure, na Ilha Marajó (PA), através qual é discutido o modo como as se introduzem campo da a partir suas relações familiares das vivências em comunidade. Neste estudo, destacada fenômeno ligado às primord...

Mushrooms have been used in folk medicine for thousands of years. In this study, the effect of β -glucan-rich extract of P. sajor-caju (GE) on lipid lowering and antioxidant potential was assessed in C57BL/6J mice fed on a high-fat diet. Obesity was induced in C57BL/6J mice by feeding a high-fat diet. The control groups in this study were ND (for normal diet) and HFD (for high-fat diet). The tr...

The edible wild mushrooms are most important in food security of ethnic groups and tribals throughout the world. Various indigenous strategies are followed to trace wild mushrooms suitable for human consumption. Data presented in this article projects ethnic knowledge on 51 edible wild mushrooms (in 23 genera) in the Western Ghats region of India. Information collected with support of ethnic gr...