Mushroom Beds Research Articles

Ditylenchus destructorthorne 1945 in champignons

A species ofDitylenchus, very closely resemblingD. destructorThorne, 1945, was found in mushroom beds at Maastricht and elsewhere. These beds showed a diseased condition called „ruimte moeheid” (room-sickness); consisting in a gradual disappearance of the mycelium.

White Plaster Mould of Mushroom Beds

White Plaster Mould of Mushroom Beds

Mushroom Diseases

BULLETIN JSTO. 10 of the Mushroom Growers' Association (Yaxley, Peterborough. 2s. 6d. net) contains a brief note by F. C. Atkins and C. J. La Touche on Pseudobalsamia microspores, an ascomycete which may compete with the mushroom on commercial beds. It is almost certainly introduced with the surface soil and so can possibly be eliminated with care. Boards and the house-structure should be sterilized and flies kept down, as they spread the trouble. The same bulletin contains reprints of Dr. W. M. Ware‘s paper on"Clitopilus cretatus as an Invader of Mushroom Beds"(Gard. Chron., May 18, 1935),-and Dr. W. F. Bewley‘s work on mushroom casing soil (Cheshunt Exp. Sta. Ann. Rep., 1946). A separate leaflet lists useful volumes on mushroom culture in the Association‘s library.

INVESTIGATIONS ON THE INVASION OF MUSHROOM BEDS BY PSEUDOBALSAMIA MICROSPORE

Annals of Applied BiologyVolume 28, Issue 2 p. 85-90 INVESTIGATIONS ON THE INVASION OF MUSHROOM BEDS BY PSEUDOBALSAMIA MICROSPORE H. H. Glasscock, H. H. Glasscock South-Eastern Agricultural College, Wye, KentSearch for more papers by this authorW. M. Ware, W. M. Ware South-Eastern Agricultural College, Wye, KentSearch for more papers by this author H. H. Glasscock, H. H. Glasscock South-Eastern Agricultural College, Wye, KentSearch for more papers by this authorW. M. Ware, W. M. Ware South-Eastern Agricultural College, Wye, KentSearch for more papers by this author First published: May 1941 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-7348.1941.tb07541.xCitations: 4AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume28, Issue2May 1941Pages 85-90 RelatedInformation

A New Truffle in Beds of Cultivated Mushrooms

The occurrence of an unknown fungous pest in mushroom beds was first called to our attention in May, 1929,. by a commercial mushroom grower at Ashtabula, Ohio. The complaint was made that it was filling his beds and completely stopping the production of mushrooms. Specimens of soil and manure were submitted which contained ascocarps of an undescribed truffle. The infested mushroom houses at Ashtabula were visited early in June to obtain fresh material of the fungus and to make first-hand observations of its growth habits and the damage caused. Later, similar infestations were observed at Minneapolis, Minnesota, and in several mushroom houses in Chester County, Pennsylvania. Specimens which proved to be the same species have also been received from Rosendale, New York. Although its spores are smaller than those of any known truffle the structure of the fungus indicates its affinities to be among the Tuberales, ap? parently most closely related to Pseudobalsamia l Fischer or to Balsamia Vitt. Since it is quite different in certain respects from known species of these genera it seems proper to describe it as a new species.

Is Psalliota Brunnescens Under Cultivation?

Some brick spawn used in mushroom beds under the benches of a greenhouse at the New York Agricultural Experiment Station was obtained from an uold and reliable firm of seedsmen in New York City. It was purchased as u American spore culture mushroom, cream white variety. All of the mushrooms produced from this spawn were altogether different from the common mushroom, Psalliota campestris. They were reddish-brown, fibrillose-scaly, and usually of large size. Being unable to determine the species, we sent specimens to Dr. C. H. Kauffman, Ann Arbor, Michigan, for identification. After a careful study of the plants Dr. Kauffman expressed the opinion that they belonged to Psalliota brunnescens, a species described by Peck (4) in 1900. This identification is necessarily uncertain, because, as stated by Duggar (1), the cultivated form of a mushroom may be quite different from its wild form. In a letter dated April 26, 1926, Dr. Kauffman says: Of course it may not be P. brunnescens, but I know of no other species to which it can approach so closely. It certainly should not be considered a variety of P. campestris, P. arvensis, or P. subrujescens, unless cultivation of agarics causes more far-reaching changes than any known in plants and due to cultivation of this kind. It should be noted here that Murrill (3) once wrote as follows concerning Psalliota brunnescens: uMy A[garicus] campester hortensis described and figured in Mycologia for July, 1914, seems very near this species. Previously, Murrill (2) had stated that his variety is often cultivated but is rarely found wild. Our fungus is characterized as follows: Pileus 5-12 cm. broad, convex to convex-expanded, firm, dry, reddish-brown, fibrillosescaly, margin at first incurved and surpassing the lamellae; 41

Further Notes on the Sporadic Appearance of Non-Edible Mushrooms in Cultivated Mushroom Beds

Further Notes on the Sporadic Appearance of Non-Edible Mushrooms in Cultivated Mushroom Beds

Further Notes on the Sporadic Appearance of Non-Edible Mushrooms in Cultivated Mushroom Beds

Further Notes on the Sporadic Appearance of Non-Edible Mushrooms in Cultivated Mushroom Beds

XVI. A letter from the Reverend Mr. Roger Pickering, V. D. M. to C. Mortimer, M. D. Secr. R. S. concerning the propagation and culture of mushrooms

Dear Sir, The late rains having thrown up upon my mushroom beds a great quantity of those plants, I take the opportunity to send some additional observations to those printed in these Transactions, No 471. p. 593.