Effect of Using Whey in the Submerged Culture of Grifola umbellata

Watermelon peel waste (WPW) is a zero value material containing a high amount of nutrients that could be utilized in microbial growth medium production. In the present work, WPW was used to produce universal fungal growth medium with great nutritional profile to use instead of other expensive media particularly the Potato dextrose agar (PDA) medium. The mechanical and physical pretreatments were used to extract the growth medium from WPW. The...