Among the edible mushrooms,extensively cultivated are the paddy straw mushroom,Volvariellain the tropics and the cultivated white mushroom.Agaricus bisporus (Lange)Sing.in the temperate regions (Singer,1961).volvariella diplasia (Berk&Br.)Sacc.has been successfully cultivated at Coimbatore during the past two decades (Thomas et al.1943.Ramakrishnan et.al1968).In India Sohi et al.(1965)have reported some work on the cultivation of A.hisporus at Simla.Resuts of attempts to cultivate this mushroom in TamilNadu are reported here.
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