Sentence examples for spent substrate from inspiring English sources
Currently, most of the spent substrate is burnt to generate steam for substrate sterilization and heating of mushroom farms, some spent substrate is used as organic fertilizers in orchards.
The cellulose content in the spent substrate was 91.55% that of the unused substrate, which was slightly reduced, and lignin in the spent substrate was 81.88% that of the unused substrate, reducing to a larger degree than cellulose.
In addition, mushroom spent substrate can be potentially utilized in crop organic production (Lopes et al. 2015).
In recent years, many experiments have been conducted to recycle the spent substrate for cultivation of other mushrooms (usually high temperature fruiting types) (Royse 1992; Li 2013).
The ash in the spent substrate was more than twice that of the unused substrate, reflecting the dry matter loss through respiration by P. eryngii.
The spent substrate left after harvesting the mushrooms, which is entangled with innumerable mushroom threads (collectively referred to as mycelia), can also be used as animal feed (more palatable), bio-fertilizer for soil fertility enrichment and biogas (Alice and Kustudia 2004).
The aim of this research was to evaluate weathered spent mushroom substrate (SMS), made from spent Flammulina velutipes mushroom substrate, as a growing medium for nursery seedlings.
The persistence, mobility and degradation of tebuconazole were assessed under field conditions in a sandy clay loam soil amended with spent mushroom substrate (SMS) at two rates.
The objective of this study was to validate the exploitation of spent mushroom substrate (SMS), a low or null cost organic waste derived from the industrial production of P. ostreatus, as bulking agent in a dynamic biopile pilot plant.
This research work was conducted in order to investigate the possibility of using spent mushroom substrate (SMS) in the production of horticultural seedlings replacing part of the peat in the growing media.
Since the use of peat is not environmentally or economically feasible in China, this study tested the potential of replacing it with a locally available material, spent mushroom substrate (SMS).
