Based on the availability of agro-wastes materials like wheat straw (S1), white sawdust (S4), date palm fiber (S5) and their combinations S2 (70% wheat straw, 20% white sawdust and 10% date palm fiber) and S3 (50% wheat straw, 30% white sawdust and 20% date palm fiber); cultivation of oyster mushroom Pleurotus ostreatus was successful thereof. The longer mycelium complete time within bags was 17 days on sawdust (S4), in contrast, the short time for mycelium overgrew was completed after 13 d on S3. In significant (P
Key words: bio-recycling, cellulosic residues, cultivation, date palm wastes, oyster mushroom
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