Athena Marie F. Arandada, Catherine R. Oscares, Mary Kristine V. Quinnon ( February 2000 )
Philippine Science High School Western Visayas Campus – Department of Science and Technology (DOST-PSHS WVC), Brgy. Bito-on, Jaro, Iloilo City 5000, Philippines
ABSTRACT
This study aimed to determine the effect of banana ( Musa paradisiaca ), mango ( Mangifera indica ) and papaya ( Carica papaya ) leaves on the growth of straw mushroom ( Volvariella volcocea ) The independent variables in this study are the dried banana, mango, and papaya leaves. The dependent variables are the dry straw mushrooms. Four mushroom beddings were prepared and named Beddings A, B, C, and D. Each of these beddings were composed of casing soil, rice straw , and the leaf substrate. Dried banana serve as substrate for A, mango leaves for B, and papaya leaves for C. Mushroom Bedding D will serve as controlwith no leaf substrate involved. Two other replicates for dry weight , wet weight, height, yield , and diameter of the hyphae was totaled and divided by the number of replicates. The One Way Analysis of Variance ( ANOVA ) , set at 0.05 alpha was employed as inferential statical tool.
In this study, mango leaves showed better effects on the dry weight , wet weight, height, and diameter of hypae of straw mushroom. Therefore mango leaves proved to be most effective substrate in mushroom bedding.