Abstract: In order to improve the yield and quality of Pleurotus ostreatus and optimize the stick-making technique, the effects of stick-making techniques including sterilization, composting, composting plus short-term sterilization and induced sterilization on the yield, agronomic traits and nutritional quality of Pleurotus ostreatus were studied with 'Huimei NO.2' cultivar as test material. The results showed that technique of composting plus short-term sterilization demonstrated the best agronomic traits with 544.33 g, 1.51 cm, 6.47 cm, 7.75 cm, 34.00 branches of weight of single fl ower, stipe diameter, stipe length, pileus diameter, branch number, respectively, and with total yield of 85.56 kg per 100 sticks, of which ranked the third. Composting technique obtained the highest total yield of 98.26 kg per 100 sticks and also the best nutritional quality with 24.57%, 16.02%, 1.53% and 154.64 mg/g
of contents of crude protein, crude fi ber, crude fat and total amino acid in fruiting body, respectively. And its agronomic
traits was the second to that of composting plus short-term sterilization technique. The highest stick-making ratio was
99.2% of induced sterilization technique. Higher yield and quality could be obtained by composting and composting
plus short-term sterilization techniques, and higher stick-making rate and yield could be obtained by induced sterilization
technique. The composting technique did not need sterilization, with fruiting body of good yield and quality, and energy
saving and high effi ciency, which was suitable for Pleurotus ostreatus cultivation in late summer and early autumn
in Beijing. |