METHOD FOR GROWING OF SEED MYCELIUM OF EDIBLE SAPROBIC MUSHROOM Russian patent published in 2002 - IPC

FIELD: agriculture, in particular, mushroom growing. SUBSTANCE: method involves placing liquid mushroom culture on nutrient medium; holding under sterile conditions at temperature and acidity values of medium providing maximal growth coefficient until mycelium is ready. Method is characterized in that cereal crop grains are preliminarily wetted with boiling water and held without additional heating for time sufficient for complete swelling of grains. Swollen grains are separated from water and acidity stabilizing agent (calcspar) is added into separated swollen grains. Resultant mixture is stabilized at pressure of 0.5 atm for at least 0.5 h. Cooled grain is inoculated with sterile liquid mother mycelium and held in darkness for at least 5 days under sterile conditions. Ready mycelium is packed, stored and sold in closed polyethylene bags provided with openings. Method allows useful mycelium microflora to be kept and concurrent mushrooms to be prevented from entrapment into ready product. EFFECT: reduced labor intensity and growing time and improved quality of ready product. 2 cl