Desenvolvimento de cogumelos shitake(Lentinula edodes), cultivados em diferentes substratos ambientados em um fragmento florestal secundário, em Parauapebas

Abstract

Fungi are organisms that need other sources of food to survive, such as the edible fungus Lentinula edodes which, in addition to converting lignocellulosic biomass into food, has high nutritional quality, having an appreciable flavor and is rich in nutritional and medicinal properties. It is considered the second most consumed mushroom in the world. The shitake mushroom (Lentinula edodes) can grow in a wide variety of materials composed of cellulose and lignin, considering that its cultivation can be done both in wood logs and in blocks from the mixture of agricultural residues. The understory microclimate found in Forest Fragments, very common in the Parauapebas region, presents viable conditions for the development of fungiculture. The high levels of humidity contained in the environment, during most of the year, favor fungal activities. In this regard, special attention should be paid to the mid-year period, between the months of June and September, during the dry winter and with large thermal amplitudes. When the coldest mornings and the hottest afternoons of the year are experienced. Therefore, the interest in cultivating edible mushrooms comes from the ease of testing different types of substrates for cultivation, in view of the richness of plant species inserted in the amazonian region. However, it is necessary to study and understand the factors that can be considered limiting for cultivation, since there are still no records of research that prove the viability of cultivation in the municipality of Parauapebas, PA.