different competitor weed fungi rhizopus stolonifer, penicillium glabrum, fusarium oxysporum and coprinopsis kimurae were found to have associated with the fruit beds as constant contaminants of pleurotus sajor-caju and lentinula edodes. several antagonists, plant extracts and chemicals were tested against the weed fungi to screen the most effective ones and to have an integrated combination fo...

BACKGROUND Antiretroviral treatment (ART) regimens in HIV patients commonly cause significant lipid elevations, including increases in both triglycerides and cholesterol. Standard treatments for hypercholesterolemia include the HMG CoA reductase inhibitors, or "statins." Because many ART agents and statins share a common metabolic pathway that uses the cytochrome P450 enzyme system, coadministr...

The influences of temperature and nutritional conditions on the mycelium growth of oyster mushroom Pleurotus ostreatus (PO) and Pleurotus cystidiosus (PC) were investigated in laboratory experiment during the summer season of 2014. The results of the experiment indicated that potato dextrose agar (PDA) and yam dextrose agar (YDA) were the most suitable media for the mycelium growth of oyster mu...

Extended cultivation of Pleurotus ostreatus in the same location leads to increased infection by harmful organisms, which results reduced yield and quality mushrooms. This, turn, decreases profitability production may render mushroom growing an unviable industry [1-4]. In blocks infected with competing microorganisms, growth P. mycelium is initially very slow, lose their due influence foreign m...

Isolation of cellulose in empty fruit bunch (EFB) is hindered by lignin content. EFB was pretreated with Pleurotus ostreatus which has the ability to degrade lignin, various incubation times (0th, 15th,30th, 45th, and 60th). The result showed decreased from 29.3% 20.3% 40.2% 26.2%, respectively. optimum degradation time on 30th day contents 41% 39.7% (C/L) ratio increased 1.40 1.99. These data ...

Microbial silver nanoparticles have been known to have bactericidal effects but the antimicrobial mechanism have not been clearly revealed. The use of microorganisms in the synthesis of nanoparticles emerges as an ecofriendly and exciting approach. In this study biosynthesis of silver nanoparticles using Pleurotus sajor caju fungi and its antimicrobial studies has been reported. The extra cellu...