Eff ect of cellulosic matter and container size on cultivation and yield of oyster mushroom Pleurotus ostreatus

When cultivation the oyster mushrooms, we must put ability use locally low-cost wastes in this agricultureviz. houses and shops wastes. The ability of paper wastes (cardboard) and wheat straw were estimated in theoyster mushroom Pleurotus ostreatus production in plastic bottles of different volumes from wastes of housesin Hit city compare as using polyethylene bags. The results showed that the best significant (P < 0.05) cropreached to 143.8 g on bags that capacity 1.5 kg of wheat straw, followed by a rate 64.8 g on the same substratein 0.55 kg plastic bottles. The larger number of flushes was 2.2 flushes/bag for the wheat straw in a bottle(0.55 kg), followed 2.0 flushes/bag by the cardboard in a bag of capacity 1.5 kg. Higher significant (P < 0.05)weight of the body was 120.4 g when grown in a bag 1.5 kg of wheat straw. The cardboard was showed thebiological efficiency 32.5% compared with the wheat straw (control) 25.7% while the higher biological efficiencywas 60.7% followed 45.9% for the wheat straw on bags that capacity 0.5 kg and bottle 0.1 kg, respectively