Selection of Collection and Selection of Yanagi Mushroom (<I>Agrocybe cylindracea</I>) for Strain Development
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Yanagi mushroom (Agrocybe cylindracea) is an important economic mushroom that is very popular for consume. Currently, the commercial Yanagi mushroom strains have problems with low yields due to climate change, and the color of the pileus was light-brown, which did not satisfy the consumer. Yanagi mushroom strains were necessary collected and selected to serve as germplasm for strain development to solve the problem. The objective of this research was to collect Yanagi mushroom strains to cultivate and select the potential strains with high yield performance and darker pileus color for market demand. Twenty-tree Yanagi mushroom strains were collected and investigated for mycelium growth rate, days required to complete spawn running, fresh yield, and morphological characteristics compared with Yanagi-1. The results revealed that the growth rate of mycelium and the days required for spawn completion of 23 Yanagi mushroom strains were not significantly different, but the strains Ya18, Ya13, and Ya10 obtained high fresh yields of 87.33, 86.54, and 79.09 g/bag, and biological efficiency of 24.26, 24.04, and 21.96%, respectively, which is a significant difference from Yanagi-1. In addition, a darker color of pileus was selected, and it was found that strains Ya10, Ya21, and Ya22 have a darker pileus color than other strains with high yields. Therefore, 5 Yanagi mushroom strains, Ya10, Ya13, Ya18, Ya21, and Ya22, were selected as germplasm for the development of new commercial cultivars.
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