EFFECTS OF PROPOLIS ON MYCELIUM DEVELOPMENT AND GROWTH OF THE AGARICUS BITORQUIS (QUEL.) SACCARDO

Perihan GÜLER¹ , Ömür Gençay Çelemli ¹ , KADRİYE SORKUN ¹

In this study, the effects of bee product propolis onto the Agaricus bitorquis (Quel.) Saccardo which is known as summer mushroom that is resistant to high temperature were studied. Propolis, honey bees and the trees by the bark, buds and buds of plants collected, is a very strong sticky substance that has anti-viral, anti-bacterial, anti-fungal effect. It has very rich aliphatic acid, amino acid, and aromatic acid, esters of aromatic acids, aromatic aldehyde, flavones, ketone and terpenoids as chemical contents. In many countries where there are advanced mushroom production, especially in far east countries, the mushrooms with propolis are produced, but in our country the propolis is just started to be known thus there is not too much studies conducted on mushroom production with propolis. In our research, propolis samples are collected from the bee producers and the chemical contents of propolis were analyzed. Different concentrated extracts were prepared from propolis and they were added to potato dextrose agar (PDA) medium and the mycelium and spawn growths of the Agaricus bitorquis were examined.

Keywords
Basidiomycota, Agaricus bitorquis, Propolis, Mycelium development, Spawn,