A novel coconut-malt extract medium increases growth rate of morels in pure culture.

ABSTRACT: Morels are gourmet wild edible mushrooms that can grow on several substrates with significant growth rate variations. Such variations have hindered the development of a standardized culture media to promote morel's sustainable production. The aim of this study is developing a novel culture media that takes advantage of coconut water as a complementary component of culture media. Coconut water has been extensively used as a growth-promoting component for plant tissue cultures; however, its application as component of fungi cultivation medium has not been fully developed. This study confirms that coconut water can be efficiently used as culture media component for morels using a kinetic characterization. Morchella sp. kinetic growth is evaluated in different cultures: agar, malt extract agar

SUBMITTER: Evangelista FR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8674397 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature