Comparative Study Of The Bop-Active Nutritive And Vitamin Constituents Of Pleurotus Pulmonarius (Fries) Quelet, Fruit Bodies Crown On Different Substrates

ABSTRACT

For thousands of years, mushrooms have been a part o 1 the normal human diet. Though through trial and error humans have learned to avoid the poisonous mushrooms. Fungi have a profound influence on human affairs, and their use in tood is a very ancient practice. In Nigeria, mushrooms are geniality harvested in the world, where individuals go out to scout for and harvest them. They thrive well in the in the area where the temperature ranges from 20°C to 40°C. Mushrooms are mainly saprophytes; they feed on the organic plant matters and grove well on agricultural wastes (Oei, I 991). They require a moderate rainfall for growth and P1 ' range o1 3 — 10 for adequate growth (Chang and Feiiiandez, 1 980). A more modem and acceptable dentition of mushroom is that mushrooms at-c spore-producing fruit bodies of higher Fungi that develop from an extensive mass of the thread-like hyphac, which arc collectively known as mycelium, present in ground or oilier substrates 2 0fl which the fungus grove (Chang, 1 980). Like other fungi, mushrooms have achiorophyllous. Although mushrooms arc saprophytes, some are quite capable of' being parasites on trees (Garcha, 1 988).