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EUBCE 2024 - Georgia PAPOUTSI - Repurposing Spent Mushroom Compost for the Cultivation of Two Species of Pleurotus Mushrooms and its Effect on their Immunomodulatory Properties

Repurposing Spent Mushroom Compost for the Cultivation of Two Species of Pleurotus Mushrooms and its Effect on their Immunomodulatory Properties

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Repurposing Spent Mushroom Compost for the Cultivation of Two Species of Pleurotus Mushrooms and its Effect on their Immunomodulatory Properties

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The mushroom cultivation process aims at producing fruitbodies of edible and medicinal fungi. After the harvest of the fruitbodies an exhausted residual substrate is generated. That nutrient-depleted biomass waste, known as spent mushroom compost (SMC), is the main by-product of the mushroom industry. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the use of SMC as a substrate for the cultivation of two different species of Pleurotus mushrooms through its effect on the in vitro immunomodulatory properties of the Pleurotus mushrooms. Our hypothesis was based on the fact that SMC is rich in residual fungal mycelium that could benefit the biofunctional properties of cultivated mushrooms. Our results showed that one of the two mushrooms greatly benefitted from its cultivation in one of the substrates used regarding its immunomodulatory properties, suggesting that with necessary research an optimal composition of substrate using SMC could be found for other species of mushrooms as well.

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Georgia PAPOUTSI

ELKE- Agricultural University of Athens, GREECE

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Co-authors:

E. Dalaka, Agricultural University of Athens, GREECE
D.-E. Bekiari, Agricultural University of Athens, GREECE
A. Savviddou, Agricultural University of Athens, GREECE
G. Papoutsi, Agricultural University of Athens, GREECE
I. Diamantis, Hellenic Agricultural Organization-Demeter, Lykovrisi, GREECE
P. Diamantopoulou, Hellenic Agricultural Organization-Demeter, Lykovrisi, GREECE
G. Theodorou, Agricultural University of Athens, GREECE

Session reference: 1DV.5.10