ISOLATION AND PILOT PRODUCTION OF SPAWN OF LENTINUS TIGRINUS MUSHROOM IN THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY

Abstract

Lentinus tigrinus is a wild edible mushroom with delicious taste. In this study, this edible mushroom is domesticated for commercial purpose in the future. The sample is collected from natural environment, isolated by tissue culture on PDA media in laboratory of Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Technology, Thai Nguyen University of Agriculture and Forestry. Mother spawn is produced in cotton swab and subcultured into rice to reduce decay ratio in traditional method. The result shows that Lentinus tigrinus is domesticated successfully. The fruiting body is observed after three months. One hundred percent of mother spawn grow well without decay rice. Conditions for fruiting body formation will be optimized in the future to develop this edible mushroom as a commercial product.