3.3. Production assay
Bags were incubated during 75 days, lapse which coincides with
initiation of some primordia formation. After this period, bags were
removed and the colonized substrates, referred hereafter as production
blocks, were transferred to fruiting room. New primordia
began to form after 11 days of moving bags to the production room.
Mature fruiting bodies were produced after 22 days on PS (ICFC:
751/12) and after 30 days on ES (ICFC 47/99). Fruiting bodies were
produced in most of the blocks; 100% of blocks made of PS produced
basidiomata meanwhile 94.43% made of ES produced them.
Treatments with strains ICFC 47/99 and 748/12 on ES also produced
mushrooms in 100% ofthe blocks; only strain 751/12 produced fruit
bodies in 83.33% of the blocks. The highest BE % was obtained with
strain ICFC 748/12 on PS reaching a mean of 70.67% with signifi-
cant difference (P < 0.05) in relation to the other treatments (Fig. 3).
The strain ICFC 47/12 also produced higher yield on PS (47.33%)
and lower on ES (29.04%). Strain 751/12 produced similar values in
both substrates: 37.00% on ES (Fig. 4) and 35.72% on PS