cultivation is requiring the preparation of a suitable spawn that assures an adequate mycelia growth and development on the substrates. Suitable spawn for this mushroom must be contained mycelia that enable to grow rapidly into the special substrate...

A total of 48 female spirlins Alburnoides sp. from the Kesselian stream (South Caspian Sea basin, northern Iran)were examined during a period from July 2008 to June 2009 to obtain data on fecundity, and to determine the spawning season of this carp...

Mushroom breeding is a newly established, but growing industry in Iran. There are about 120 producers with a total of about 20000 tones per year in the country. Since ten years ago a breeding program was started with ...

Spawn quality plays important role in successful production of medicinal mushrooms. In this study, first, to determine the optimum temperature for growth of G. lucidum mycelia, 4 basal media, including seeds of wheat, barley, millet and Russians...