Pleurotus sajor-caju is a cultivated edible mushroom which is gaining popularity in India due to its ability to grow at higher temperature. In order to improve it further radiation treatments ranging from 50 to 75 KR were given to spores and hybridized dikaryons thus obtained showed increase in yield, average weight of a mushroom indicating radiation could be used to induce favourable variation in P. sajor-caju.
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Manuscript Published on 01 March 1997
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