Strain Improvement Of Specialty Mushroom, Calocybe Indica,  Through Mutagenesis

Jatinder Kaur; Harpreet S Sodhi; Shammi Kapoor; Pradeep K Khanna; Ravinder K Jaswal

doi:10.48165/

Authors

Jatinder Kaur Department of Microbiology, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana - 144 004 Punjab, India
Harpreet S Sodhi Department of Microbiology, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana - 144 004 Punjab, India
Shammi Kapoor Department of Microbiology, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana - 144 004 Punjab, India
Pradeep K Khanna Department of Microbiology, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana - 144 004 Punjab, India
Ravinder K Jaswal Department of Microbiology, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana - 144 004 Punjab, India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.48165/

Keywords:

Calocybe indica, enzyme activity, mushroom, mutagenesis, putative mutants, yield

Abstract

Calocybe indica, a specialty mushroom, is the third most popular mushroom in India. During present investigation 9 strains of C. indica were cultivated on wheat straw using the recommended technology. Maximum biological efficiency was obtained in strain Ci-3 (81.28%). The improvement in Ci-3, a high yielding strain, was attempted using mutagenic treatment on protoplasts. Four mutagenic treatments (one irradiation and three chemical) yielded 30 putative mutants. Growth studies of putative mutants indicated maximum growth rate of CMB-4 on wheat straw while CMN-11 gave maximum biomass on complete yeast extract medium. Mutant CMN-9 gave maximum endoglucanase (0.345 µg min-1 ml-1) and xylanase (0.54 µg min-1 ml-1) activity. Seven mutants were identified on the basis of growth and enzymes studies. Cultivation of mutants was carried out on wheat straw following hot water treatment. Four mutants (CMN-3, CMN-9, CMN-11 and CMB-4) gave significantly higher yield than the parent.

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