Abstract: A substrate for mushroom cultivation comprises a polyene fungicide, in particular, natamycin. Mushrooms cultivated in such substrates can be harvested earlier than mushrooms cultivated in substrates which do not include polyene fungicides. Alternatively, mushrooms grown in a substrate comprising a polyene fungicide achieve a greater size than mushrooms grown for the same amount of time in a substrate which does not include a polyene fungicide.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 30, 2000
Date of Patent:
December 2, 2003
Assignees:
DSM N.V., Sylvan, Inc.
Inventors:
Jacobus Stark, Mark Peter Wach, Edith Magda Lucia Geijp, Ferdinand Theodorus Jozef Van Rijn, Lori Ann MacDonald, Jeffrey Wayne Smathers