The Improvement of Pleuorotus Species Cultivated On Soybean Straw Bed Supplemented with Flax Seed Meal

Anuradha Jape | Devyani Salunke | Supriya Dighe | Abhay Harsulkar

Abstract: Mushrooms are rich sources of nutraceuticals and are known for antioxidant, antitumor, antimicrobial properties. Flax, Linumusitatissimum, is a unique plant having a rich combination of fat, protein and dietary fibre, which constitute approximately 40 %, 20 % and 28 % respectively. Flax oil is the richest source of ALA (50-60 %), the parent compound of -3 fatty acids. Soybean straw bed supplemented with flaxseed meal (10 % to50 % dry weight) was used as potential raw material to improve nutritional quality of mushrooms. The maximum protein content of 44.268g % was obtained in fruiting bodies produced when soybean straw was supplanted with 20 % flax seed meal (on dry weight basis). Fatty acid profile analysis suggests that mushroom species could not bioconvert flax ALA into Poly Unsaturated Fatty Acids (PUFA).

Keywords: Flax, Pleurotus, PUFA, Fatty acid profile

Edition: Volume 3 Issue 7, July 2014,

Pages: 1906 - 1909