9075results about "Mushroom cultivation" patented technology

The composite material is comprised of a substrate of discrete particles and a network of interconnected mycelia cells bonding the discrete particles together. The composite material is made by inoculating a substrate of discrete particles and a nutrient material with a preselected fungus. The fungus digests the nutrient material over a period of time sufficient to grow hyphae and to allow the hyphae to form a network of interconnected mycelia cells through and around the discrete particles thereby bonding the discrete particles together to form a self-supporting composite material. In another embodiment, the fungus is allowed to grow as a fruiting body out of the substrate and within an enclosure to completely fill the enclosure to form a self-supporting structure.

The method of growing a fungal fruiting body requires exposing a mycelium of a desired organism type to environmental conditions sufficient to induce fruiting of fungal primordium in the organism type followed by enclosing the fungal primordium within a mold of a designated shape representing a near net shape volume of a desired final product. The fungal primordium is allowed to grow and fill the mold to form a mass of fungal tissue equivalent in shape to the designated shape of the mold after which the mass of fungal tissue is removed from the mold and dried.

The invention discloses a culturing method for sporocarp of Morchella. The culturing method comprises the following steps: fungal strain preparation, fungal strain culturing, soil treatment, sowing, covering and temperature preservation, management in the growth period of mycelia, fruiting acceleration treatment, management in a fruiting period, and harvesting. According to the invention, operation steps like drawing of fungal strains from a fungal strain bottle or a fungal strain bag, fungal strain hydration, and placement of a large amount of nutrition material bags on the surface of soil in a traditional technology are removed, so the field-cultivation or indoor-cultivation technique for the Morchella is more simple and convenient; the cost of the nutrition material bags is reduced by three fourth or more; the generation cost of cultivation of the Morchella is greatly reduced; the technical difficulty of the cultivation of the Morchella is greatly decreased; and economic benefits are greatly improved.

The present invention describes a new substrate comprising olive oil waste as the nutrient for growing edible and medicinal shiitake mushrooms (Lentinus edodes) in aseptic plastic bags. The invention further provides the strain Ile-1, a new and distinct variety of the species Lentinus edodes, that grows very efficiently in the olive oil waste-containing substrate.

A method of forming fungal materials and fungal objects from those fungal materials, the method comprising the steps of growing a first fungal tissue in contact with a nutritive vehicle; supplying a porous material in contact with said first fungal tissue; directing growth of said fungal tissue through said porous material such that a portion of said fungal tissue comprises a first fungal material having first fungal hyphae; optionally incorporating composite material; directing a change in the composition or growth pattern of at least some of said first fungal hyphae; separating at least a portion of the first fungal material from said nutritive vehicle; obtaining a second fungal material having second fungal hyphae; and forming a fungal object by encouraging fused growth between said first fungal material and said second fungal material and optionally incorporating composite material.

A self-automated mushroom growing apparatus and method for providing a continuous water and air supply for growing mushrooms on a small-scale. The apparatus is an enclosed, terrarium-like Grow Space including a porous Wicking Medium substrate, and an Air Diffuser rod situated within or below the porous Wicking Medium. An Air Diffuser is situated within the apparatus and is connected to an air supply to provide fresh air to the Grow Space. The porous Wicking Medium is saturated with water. The saturated Wicking Medium provides a continuous supply of water to a Cake Culture in contact with the Wicking Medium. The Air Supply mixes stale air that settles near the surface of the porous Wicking Medium.

The invention discloses a machine vision based mushroom automatic picking up system and method. The mushroom automatic picking up system includes a camera, a main control system, a motion system, an air bag type mechanical arm, and an air pump. The problem that the efficiency of mushroom manual picking is low, the sorting quality is uneven, and the conventional picking end executors can cause damage to mushroom and are poor in deformation and adaptive capacity can be overcome; the system can process mushroom seedling bed images having complex backgrounds and serious adhesion, and the problem of damage to the mushroom due to picking-up can be solved by the air bag type mechanical arm. The machine vision based mushroom automatic picking up system and method can provide a new method for mushroom industrial and automatic production, can achieve full mushroom production automation from seedling bed management to picking and sorting, can reduce the production cost, and can improve the classification quality.

The invention discloses a stropharia rugoso-annulata cultivation method. The method comprises the following steps of season arrangement, cultivation material selection, site selection, material collection, cultivation material treatment, sowing and mycelium cultivation, spawn running period management, earthing method and management after earthing, fruiting period management, harvesting, pest and disease control and processing. The method has the advantages that the stropharia rugoso-annulata cultivation method fully utilizes the straw resource, the specific steps and conditions of cultivation are particularly limited, and the yield of stropharia rugoso-annulata can be effectively increased; meanwhile, by adjusting the cultivation proportion of different kinds of straw, growth and development of the stropharia rugoso-annulata can be effectively controlled, the stropharia rugoso-annulata is high in yield, excellent in quality and capable of adapting to the market requirement.

A self-contained garden growing system employs a plurality of modular growing sections, each having a pre-determined length of porous tubular sock material filled with growing medium for plants therein, and having a modular length of irrigation tube installed lengthwise through the growing sock. The opposite ends of the tube have male and female coupling fittings so that a plurality of sections can be coupled together in series, with each growing sock locked in position by the shoulders of the coupling fittings at its opposite ends. The modular sections are of a plurality of types for accommodating different types of plants, volumes of growing medium, and/or watering volumes. The different types of sections each can deliver a pre-determined volume of water that is a multiple of a basic watering volume for the sections, thereby facilitating easy computation of the number and types of sections that can be coupled together in a series for a given water source.

A method of making a molded part, including forming a liquid aggregate. A fungal inoculum and the liquid aggregate are inserted into a mold cavity. A portion of an object is inserted into the mold cavity. The fungal inoculum is grown into live mycelium that operably couples with the object. The mycelium is heated to terminate further growth and develop a composite part made of mycelium and the object.

The invention relates to an automatic inoculation machine suitable for mushroom sticks. The inoculation machine comprises a machine frame. A mushroom stick conveying mechanism, a perforating device and an inoculation machine body are installed on the machine frame. The perforating device comprises a perforating power mechanism, a perforating rod, a perforating connecting plate and a positioning mechanism. The positions, at the rear sides of the perforating device and the inoculation machine body, of the machine frame are each provided with a mushroom stick or basket stopping mechanism. The inoculation machine body is installed at the position, at the rear side of the perforating device, of the machine frame and located above the mushroom stick conveying mechanism. The inoculation machine body is a solid strain inoculation machine or a liquid strain inoculation machine. The automatic inoculation machine is reasonable in structural design and capable of being suitable for inoculation of liquid strains and solid strains at the same time. Moreover, the automatic inoculation machine is reasonable in design, simple and ingenious in structure and high in inoculation efficiency. Besides, the automatic inoculation machine is especially suitable for inoculation of shiitake mushroom sticks and other edible mushroom sticks.

A method of plant cultivation which comprises inoculating plants in a plant growing system comprising a container and an insert therefore, the microbial inoculant containing at least one species from the following group of microorganisms comprising arbuscular mycorrhizae associated bacteria, plant growth promoting rhizobacteria, yeast microorganisms and substrate conditioning bacteria.

An artificial cultivation method of morchella in windy and sandy areas includes following steps: step 1, sequentially preparing mother seeds, raw seeds and cultivation seeds; step 2, building a sunlight greenhouse and a greenhouse for cultivation; step 3, preparing a land: combining with land ploughing before sowing, applying a rotten matrix, and dividing ridge areas; step 4, sowing: uniformly scattering the cultivation seeds to space behind ridge faces, furrowing along lines, and earthing; step 5, performing field management; step 6, harvesting: timely harvesting when cap veins are observed clearly to obtain mature morchella. Relying on resources of wild morchella in the windy and sandy areas of the North, through methods of tissue separation, spore culture or hybridization integration, a strain suitable for local growth is cultivated and domesticated after strict screening and fruiting experiment; according to a scientific formula, a mode of three-stage seed preparation is adopted, facilities like the sunlight greenhouse and the plastic greenhouse are utilized to increase shade and a micro spray irrigation system, and morchella is obtained by cultivation by artificially controlling environment conditions like temperature, humidity, illumination and ventilation, so that a technical gap is filled in.

A substrate for mushroom cultivation comprises a polyene fungicide, in particular, natamycin. Mushrooms cultivated in such substrates can be harvested earlier than mushrooms cultivated in substrates which do not include polyene fungicides. Alternatively, mushrooms grown in a substrate comprising a polyene fungicide achieve a greater size than mushrooms grown for the same amount of time in a substrate which does not include a polyene fungicide.

The invention discloses a production and application technology of a symbiotic armillaria mellea artificial fungus stick for Gastrodia elata Bl., and belongs to the technical field of Chinese medicinal plant planting. The technology mainly comprises the following steps: (1) preparation of raw materials of an armillaria mellea artificial fungus stick, and mixing; (2) production of the armillaria mellea artificial fungus stick and sterilization; (3) inoculation of the sterilized armillaria mellea artificial fungus stick and cultivation; (4) field use of the cultivated armillaria mellea artificial fungus stick and Gastrodia elata Bl. planting. Compared with the conventional Gastrodia elata Bl. planting technology, the technology has the advantages that agricultural waste is adopted to produce the symbiotic armillaria mellea artificial fungus stick for Gastrodia elata Bl., industrialized production can be carried out, the operation step of culturing a fungus bed or fungus stick 6 to 8 months before Gastrodia elata Bl. planting in the conventional technology can be eliminated effectively, the traditional planting period is shortened, the inoculation rate and the Gastrodia elata Bl. yield after white-head Gastrodia elata Bl. permanent planting can be improved effectively, earlier-stage growth nutrition feeding can be guaranteed, the Gastrodia elata Bl. yield can be improved greatly, and the use of natural fungus materials can be replaced and greatly reduced, so as to reduce damage to natural woods of Gastrodia elata Bl. planting, and protect the ecological environment.

The invention discloses a large-scale artificial cultivation method for phellinus igniarius and mainly solves the problem that an existing method can not cultivate sporocarps rapidly in a large-scale mode. The method comprises the following steps: 1, obtaining protospecies, and inoculating the protospecies into a cultivating bag of a phellinus igniarius large-scale artificial medium for cultivation; 2, when phellinus igniarius hyphae overgrow the cultivating bag and the hyphae are deep yellow, or protruding nodular phellinus igniarius primordium starts to appear in the cultivating bag, transferring the cultivating bag full of the hyphae into a fruiting house for conducting fruiting cultivation. The cultivation environment conditions inside the fruiting house is that the relative air humidity ranges from 85% to 98%, and the temperature ranges from 22 DEG C to 28 DEG C. The method has the advantages that the phellinus igniarius sporocarps can be cultivated rapidly in a large-scale mode.

The invention belongs to the technical field of fungus cultivation, and in particular relates to a lentinula edodes strain and an application thereof in a lentinula edodes cultivation method. The biological preservation number of the lentinula edodes strain is CGMCC No:12501. The application of the lentinula edodes strain in the lentinula edodes cultivation method is characterized by specifically comprising the following steps: (1) preparing nutrients; (2) conducting bagging and sterilizing; (3) conducting inoculating; (4) culturing fungus bags; and (5) conducting fruiting management. Stipes are white and grow from the middle, the stipes are 2-4.5cm long and 1.4-1.9cm in diameter; and gills are thin and white, with lightly white spore prints. Lentinula edodes is high in yield, and 5-6 turns of lentinula edodes can be produced. A biological efficiency can reach 93.2% or above, which is 9.6% above that of control lentinula edodes SD-1.

A broadcast receiving apparatus and a method for providing a multilateral video communication which makes it possible to communicate with a plurality of remotely opposite parties using a digital TV having a camera therein and which is capable of supporting the Internet. The broadcast receiving apparatus includes a position determining unit for determining a position of a user by analyzing a voice signal received through a microphone array, a detection unit for detecting a face of the user in the determined position from an image received through a camera, and a transmission unit for transmitting the detected face of the user and the received voice signal.

The invention discloses a method for multi-season toadstool planting in high, cold and high-altitude areas. The method includes the following steps of 1 separation and cloning of toadstool fruiting bodies, 2 making of cultivated species, 3 making of externally aided nutrition bags. The method is not limited by natural conditions such as high and cold conditions and high altitude, toadstool can be planted in an all-year, large-scale and standardized mode, used materials are wide in source, quick and convenient, waste can be turned into wealth, life and production waste such as waste paper, waste paper boxes, plant ash, crop straws, plant ash and decomposed poultry and livestock manure is recycled, and the method is a sunlight greenhouse out-of-season toadstool planting technology which is high in fruiting repeatability, high and stable in yield, economic and environmentally friendly.

The invention relates to a full-automatic bagging device for an edible fungus compost. The full-automatic bagging device comprises a rack, wherein a slicer rotation device is arranged in the middle of the rack, a bag supplying device, a bagging device, a compaction device and a tying device are arranged at the periphery of the slicer rotation device sequentially. The invention aims at providing the full-automatic bagging device for the edible fungus compost. The full-automatic bagging device has the advantages that the bag supplying device, the bagging device, the compaction device, the tying device and a perforating and rubberizing device are integrated to form a whole body, so that automatic mechanical operation can be carried out on the whole process of manufacturing a mushroom-stick without needing artificial participation, and the production efficiency is greatly improved.