This document provides an introduction to mushroom spawn preparation. It defines mushrooms and their life cycle. Mushrooms are nutritious and can be cultivated with low investment for profit. Spawn is the seed of mushrooms and is prepared by growing fungal mycelium in sterile grains. The process of spawn preparation involves making a pure culture, mother spawn in bottles, and commercial spawn in bags. Proper storage, transport, and precautions are needed to prevent contamination of the spawn.
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1. Mushrooms: Introduction and spawn
preparation
Presented
by
Debajit Rabha
Asst. Prof. of
Botany
Pandit Deendayal
Upadhyaya
Adarsha
Mahavidyalaya,
Amjonga,
Goalpara, Assam
2. Contents
Introduction
What is Mushroom?
Why Mushroom?
Success story
Process of Mushroom cultivation
What is Spawn?
Preparation of Spawn
Storage of spawn
Transport of spawn
Precautions
3. Introduction
Mushrooms are nature's hidden treasures of nutrition
The mushrooms were used as food since long back, probably
from 3000 B.C. as per ancient Indian literature.
Since that time, the mushrooms are being consumed in
different countries like Greece, Egypt, France etc.
The Greeks and Romans described mushrooms as food for
the god.
4. What Are Mushrooms ?
The mushroom is a fruiting body of microorganisms called
fungi, commonly belonging to Basidiomycotina and also
Ascomycotina.
The mycelium, as a whole, is the non-reproductive, vegetative
part of the mushroom found in soil or other organic matter.
The mushroom is composed of an underground part
(mycelium) and an aboveground, often edible part that is also
the reproductive organ.
7. Why Mushroom?
Good taste and unique flavour
Easy to Cultivate with short crop duration
Medicinal appeal
Less investment and high return
Self employment (Suitable for woman)
Less time and labour intensive
Utilization of agricultural waste
High nutritional value
Suitable for small and landless farmers (space!)
High market demand
Spent mushroom substrate can be used for vermicomposting
Asias climate suitable for mushroom cultivation
8. Food value
Protein -Most mushrooms have a high protein content, usually
around 20-30% by dry weight.
Fiber -Helps lower cholesterol and is important for the digestive
system.
Vitamin D -Essential for the absorption of calcium.
Copper -Aids in helping the body absorb oxygen and create red
blood cells.
Selenium -An antioxidant that helps neutralize free radicals.
Mushrooms contain more selenium than any other biopropuct.
Potassium -An extremely important mineral that regulates blood
pressure and keeps cells functioning properly
Other important minerals -Such as p, zn, and mg.
Low levels of fat, calories, and sodium
No cholesterol
9. Success story
National Award
Hemanta Nath, a farmer from Assam received the Progressive Mushroom
Grower Award from Indian Council of Agricultural Research Directorate of
Mushroom Research (ICAR DMR), Solan, Himachal Pradesh.
Source: The Hill Times, 13/0922
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18. Mushroom cultivation
Spawn preparation: Spawn is the mushroom seed. It is
prepared by growing fungal mycelium in grains under sterile
conditions.
Composting: Compost is prepared by mixing paddy straw
with number of organic materials like cow dung and inorganic
fertilizers. It is kept at about 50oC for one week.
Spawning: Spawn is sown on compost.
Casing: Compost is covered with a thin layer of soil. It gives
support to the growing mushroom, provides humidity and
helps regulate the temperature.
19. Mushroom cultivation (continued)
Pinning
Mycelium starts to form little bud, which will develop into
mushroom. Those little white buds are called pins.
Harvesting
Mushroom grow better in 15oC - 23oC. They grow 3 cm in a
week which is the normal size for harvesting. In the third week
the first flush mushroom can be harvested.
21. What is Spawn?
Spawn is the seed ! of mushroom.
The spawn (seed of mushroom) is a pure
culture of the mycelia grown on a special
medium.
The medium is prepared by the grains of
wheat, rye, sorghum or bajra along with
some ingredients.
22. Spawn production
Spawn laboratory
Spawn culture media
Pure culture
Preparation of mother spawn
Preparation of commercial spawn
Precaution
23. Spawn laboratory
Equipment of spawn laboratory
Autoclaves
One boiling vessel,
Laminar air flow chamber
refrigerator
BOD incubator
pH meter
Glassware
Chemicals (for culture media)
Non-absorbent cotton
Polypropylene bags or bottles
Air conditioning
equipments
Steel racks
Exhaust fans
Filters
25. Spawn Culture media
Potato dextrose agar medium :
Boil 250 g peeled potatoes in one litre of distilled water till
these become soft and filter.
Add 20 g dextrose and 20 g agar to the filtrate and raise
volume of water to one litre.
pH of the medium is maintained at 6.5.
Fill about 5ml of medium in each test tube.
Autoclave test tubes at 15 lb. psi for 20 to 30 minutes.
26. Pure culture
1. Tissue culture :
especially the lower portion of the cap where the gill plate
joins the stem is considered the best tissue for excision.
The mushroom is cut lengthwise from cap downwards. With a
flamed needle, a small piece of the internal tissue of the
broken mushroom is cut and inserted into culture media bottle.
The inoculated bottles are incubated at 25+1oC preferably in
darkness for about 10-15 days.
2. Spore culture :
Collect aseptically large sized healthy mushroom with
membrane (veil) still intact, sterilize the surface, mount on a
wire stand over a Petridish under sterilized glass beaker.
The spores are stored under sterile condition in a refrigerator
for future use. These spores can be used for direct inoculation
of wheat extract agar medium or Lambert's agar medium
29. Preparation of mother spawn
Soak the sorghum or wheat grains in clean water to remove
chaffy and damaged grains.
Cook the grains in a vessel for 30 minutes just to soften them.
Take out the cooked grains and spread evenly on the platform
to remove excess water.
At 50% moisture level mix calcium carbonate (CaCO3)
thoroughly with the cooked, dried grains @ 20 g / Kg .
Fill the grains in saline bottles up to 3/4th height
(approximately 300-330 g / bottle), insert a PVC ring , bold
the edges of the bag down and plug the mouth tightly with
non-absorbent cotton wool.
The plugs are covered with aluminum foil.
30. Continued
Arrange the bags inside an autoclave and sterilize under 20-
lbs. pressure for 2 hours.
Take out the bags after cooling and keep them inside the
culture room and put on the UV light.
After 20 minutes put off the UV light and start working in the
culture room.
These bottles are gently shaked on 5th and 10th day for
distributing the inoculum evenly in the bottles.
This spawn prepared using pure culture mycelium as
inocculant is referred as mother spawn.
Fully colonized mother spawn bottles can be used for
inoculating commercial spawn bags after two to three weeks.
32. Preparation of commercial spawn
Commercial spawn can be prepared in
polypropylene bags (heat resistant).
Normally for half and one kg spawn, the
bags should be of 35 x 17.5 cm and 40 x
20 cm in size, respectively.
Polypropylene bags should have double
sealing at the bottom. After filling the
grains a polypropylene neck (height 2 cm,
dia. 4 cm) is placed near top by passing
polypropylene bag through PP ring and
folding back the bag (Fig. 5.6).
The bags are plugged with non-absorbent
cotton.
33. Continued
These are then sterilized at 22 p.s.i. pressure for 1.5 to 2 hours.
Autoclaved bags are shaked well before inoculation so that the
grains absorb the water droplets accumulated inside the bags.
The sterilized bags are kept on the laminar flow under .
The bags are incubated under aseptic conditions using master
spawn as inoculum.
Ten to fifteen grams of grains of master spawn are used for
inoculating one bag and
one bottle of master spawn is sufficient for inoculating 25 to
30 commercial spawn bags.
38. Spawn storage
Fully colonized bags, that is, the bags in which mycelium has
covered all the grains
and spawn is ready to use, can be stored in cold room (+4-6属C)
for 1-2 months for
future use.
40. Spawn transport
It is not only important to purchase good quality spawn, but
it is also important to transport and store properly.
The spawn is transported from one place to another in
refrigerated vans or during night when temperature does not
rise above 32属C. It
is important that spawn bags are not exposed to heat and dust
during transport.
41. Precautions
We should prefer to use freshly prepared spawn because the mycelium is
in the state of active growth.
We should inspect all the bags to ensure that no bag is contaminated, that
is, having green, black growth of other fungi.
We should record name of the strain, when it was inoculated and on
which date it was ready, etc.
We may transport spawn from one place to another in refrigerated vans or
during night when temperature does not rise above 32 属C.
It is important that spawn bags are not exposed to heat and dust during
transport.
The spawn can be stored in any cool place away from dust but should not
be frozen.
We should also ensure that the cotton plugs are opened only when the
spawn is to be used.
During spawning if we notice some bag with contamination, it should be
removed and hands sterilised before continuing with the spawning.