SUBSTRATE AND METHOD FOR GROWING SHIITAKE MUSHROOMS [LENTINUS EDODES (BERK.) SINGER] AND NEW SHIITAKE STRAIN

• US 20050097815A1
• Filed: 11/12/2003
• Published: 05/12/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 11/12/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Haifa University Economic Corporation Ltd
• Original Assignee: Carmel-Haifa University Economic corp. Ltd. (University of Haifa)
• Inventors: Wasser, Solomon P., Bilay, Viktor T.
• Granted Patent: US 7,043,874 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 47/1.1
• CPC Class Codes: A01G 18/66 Cultivation bags
• CPC Class Codes: C05F 5/002 Solid waste from mechanical processing of material, e.g. seed coats, olive pits, almond shells, fruit residue, rice hulls
• CPC Class Codes: Y02A 40/20 Fertilizers of biological origin, e.g. guano or fertilizers made from animal corpses
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 20/145 the feedstock being materials of biological origin

Abstract

The present invention describes a new substrate comprising olive oil waste as the nutrient for growing edible and medicinal shiitake mushrooms (Lentinus edodes) in aseptic plastic bags. The invention further provides the strain Ile-1, a new and distinct variety of the species Lentinus edodes, that grows very efficiently in the olive oil waste-containing substrate.

Claims

1-8. -8. (canceled)

9. A substrate for growth of edible and medicinal shiitake mushrooms (Lentinus edodes) comprising about 50-80% of wheat straw on a dry weight basis, about 20-50% by weight of olive oil waste and about 2-10% by weight of gypsum.

10. A substrate for growth of edible and medicinal shiitake mushrooms (Lentinus edodes) comprising about 50-70% wheat straw, about 30-50% olive oil waste and about 5-10% gypsum.

11. A substrate for growth of edible and medicinal shiitake mushrooms (Lentinus edodes) comprising about 50-60% wheat straw, about 30-40% olive oil waste and about 5-10% gypsum.

12. A substrate according to claim 11 comprising about 57% of wheat straw, about 37% of olive oil waste, and about 6% of gypsum.

13-31. -31. (canceled)