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His short book Cultivation of Mushrooms, co-authored with J. Harnett, was an excellent guide for cultivating edible mushrooms and went through three editions. Bewley's comprehensive handbook Commercial Glasshouse Crops gives details of the husbandry of glasshouse crops in the 1st half of the 20th century. [3]
Indoor tray growing is the most common commercial technique, followed by containerized growing. The tray technique provides the advantages of scalability and easier harvesting. There are a series of stages in the farming of the most widely used commercial mushroom species Agaricus bisporus. These are composting, fertilizing, spawning, casing ...
Verticillium dry bubble is the most prevalent disease of A. bisporus, and the most serious fungal pathogen of all commercial mushrooms. [11] Commercial losses to white button mushroom growers are 2–4% of annual revenue. [3] If dry bubble infects and is left uncontrolled in the mushroom growing environment, the disease can wipe out an entire ...
Organic Mushroom Farming and Mycoremediation: Simple to Advanced and Experimental Techniques for Indoor and Outdoor Cultivation. White River Junction, Vermont: Chelsea Green Publishing. ISBN 978-1603584555. Oss, O. T. (1991). Psilocybin: Magic Mushroom Grower's Guide: A Handbook for Psilocybin Enthusiasts. San Francisco, Calif: Quick American Pub.
The American Mushroom Institute is the industry trade group for the U.S. mushroom industry. The organization was founded in 1960 and is based in Avondale, Pennsylvania . AMI provides its members with information and resources on topics such as food safety, sustainability, and nutrition.
Modern commercial varieties of the common agaricus mushroom were originally light brown. The white mushroom was discovered in 1925 growing among a bed of brown mushrooms at the Keystone Mushroom Farm in Coatesville, Pennsylvania. Louis Ferdinand Lambert, the farm's owner and a mycologist by training, brought the white mushroom back to his ...
Psilocybe cubensis is commonly known as gold top, golden top or gold cap in Australia, sacred mushroom [9] or blue mushroom in Brazil, and San Ysidro or Palenque mushroom in the United States and Mexico, while the term "magic mushroom" has been applied to hallucinogenic mushrooms in general. [10]
Hydnum repandum, commonly known as the sweet tooth, pig's trotter, [7] wood hedgehog or hedgehog mushroom, is a basidiomycete fungus of the family Hydnaceae. First described by Carl Linnaeus in 1753, it is the type species of the genus Hydnum .