OPTIMIZATION OF THE SUBSTRATE MIXTURE CONSISTED OF Pinus sylvestris L.

CHIP, Eucaliptus globulus L. CHIP AND CORNCOB TO MAXIMIZE THE PRODUCTIVITY

OF THE Pleurotus ostreatus PRODUCTION.
Jorge Armando Garca1, Alberto Claudio Miano2, Gabriela Barraza3

Escuela de Ingeniera Agroindustrial, Facultad de Ingeniera, Csar Vallejo

University,Trujillo, LL, Per.
2
Department of Agri-food Industry, Food and Nutrition (LAN), Luiz de Queiroz College of
Agricultur (ESALQ), University of So Paulo (USP), Piracicaba, SP, Brazil
3
Escuela de Ingeniera Agroindustrial, Facultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias, National
University of Trujillo, Trujillo, LL, Per.
Abstract
The edible mushroom is a very important source of protein in the human alimentation, which
is an alternative to the animal protein consumption. They can be grown in many agro
industrial wastes with high content of cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin. Therefore, the
production of mushrooms can be a good alternative to reduces wastes and the
environmental pollution. In addition, the need of optimizing the mushroom production
process is very desirable in order to maximize the productivity. For those reasons, the
present study focused on optimizing the substrate (chip of Eucalyptus globulus, chip of
Pinus sylvestris and Corncob) mixture to maximize the productivity (Yield, Biological
Efficiency and Productivity rate) of the Pleurotus ostreatus production. For this, the Simplexexpanded Centroid Design with 10 treatments was used, taking as range of substrate
concentration from 0 to 100 % (w/w). Obtaining as a result that there is significant different
(p<0,05) among the treatments, demonstrating that the Pinus sylvestris chip and the corncob
increase the productivity, in contrast to the Eucalyptus globulus, which reduces it. A
mathematical model (R2>0.98), which predicts the productivity of the Pleurotus ostreatus as
function of the used substrates concentration, was obtained. Finally, by using the desirability
function, it was proved that using 100 % of Pinus sylvestis chip as substrate or mixtures of
Pinus sylvestris chip with corncob, the highest productivity is obtained.
Keywords: Pleurotus ostreatus, Pinus sylvestris, Eucaliptus globulus, Agroindustrial waste,
optimization.