Abstract:
The objectives of this study were to identify edible mushrooms found in rubber plantations, Saentoong, Khao Saming, Trat province by morphological and molecular techniques and to investigate mushroom cultivation in the laboratory and in-house. Twelve mushroom samples were collected from the rubber plantation, five of these samples were edible mushrooms consisting of Auricularia cornea (NU10), Schizophyllum commune (SC3), Termitomyces cylindricus (PK1), Tremella fuciformis (NU21), and Trichaleuria javanica (PL8). This study selected S. commune (SC3) as rubber plantation strain and commercial strain of S. commune was used to compare. The result found that S. commune rubber plantation strain revealed lower mycelia growth on PDA, on millet seed, and yield product than commercial strain, however, the data did not statistically significant difference. Additionally, the three formulas of cultivated material revealed that both S. commune rubber plantation strain and commercial strain gave the highest yield product in cultivated material formula 1 contains 15kg, 7.5kg, 300g, and 30g of sawdust, rice bran, pumice, and magnesium sulfate, respectively. Therefore, this study could cultivate S. commune rubber plantation strain and this strain could develop to be cultivated for mushroom production in-house.