The Relation Between Yield of the Cultivated Mushroom and Stage of Maturity at Picking
- 1 January 1962
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Horticultural Science
- Vol. 37 (3) , 167-174
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00221589.1962.11514037
Abstract
The stage of maturity at which sporophores were picked affected the cropping. The weight of the crop and the average weight per sporophore progressively increased with the later stage of maturity at picking, but the number of sporophores was reduced. Delaying the stage of picking also increased the interval between flushes and decreased the number of days required to pick each flush. Average weight, s, was used as an indicator of the stage of maturity of the sporophores from a particular treatment. Except in one very lowyielding experiment out of the five reported, the untrimmed weight of crop, y, from each treatment was shown to satisfy a relation y=cs0.311, where c was a constant depending on the experiment. The relation followed by the number of sporophores, n, may be simply derived from the above relation and was n=c/s0.689.Keywords
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