Cultivation techniques and medicinal properties of Pleurotus spp

Food Technology and Biotechnology

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 238-249

  Gregori, Andrej ^a,b   Švagelf, Mirjan ^c   Pohleven, Jure ^c,d  

^a ZRS Bistra Ptuj   (Slovenia)

^b Institue for Natural Sciences   (Slovenia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^d JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Biomass production; Medicinal properties; Mushroom cultivation; Pleurotus; Solid state fermentation; Submerged liquid fermentation

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS PRODUCTIONS; LIQUID FERMENTATIONS; MEDICINAL PROPERTIES; MUSHROOM CULTIVATION; PLEUROTUS; SOLID-STATE FERMENTATION;

DETOXIFICATION; FERMENTATION; FORESTRY; FUNGI;

CULTIVATION;

BASIDIOMYCOTA; MYCELIUM (GENUS); PLEUROTUS; PLEUROTUS OSTREATUS;

EID: 35349026766     PISSN: 13309862     EISSN: 13342606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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