Mushroom Research
Center Expanded
Expanded facilities in the
Mushroom Research Center
at The Pennsylvania State
University were viewed
recently by some 300 persons
attending the 17th Mushroom
Industry Short Course at
University Park.
Work on the addition was
begun in June, 1973, ac
cording to Dr. James
Tammen, head of the
Department of Plant
Pathology. Contractors are
now in the final inspection
stage and the first crops are
in the newly completed
production rooms. Project
statements and preliminary
sketches were approved by
the General State Authority,
Harrisburg, and the Board of
Trustees of the University in
December, 1968, for a base
construction cost of $216,000.
However, due to various
architectural delays, con
struction was not begim until
last year. Consequently,
inflation has allowed only 7
out of the 12 production
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at this time.
"When fully completed,
the expanded facility will
enable us to follow a more
efficient and diversified
research program,” stated
Dr. Lee C. Scheisler,
director of the Mushroom
Research Center and
chariman of a committee
which designed the ex
pansion.
The addition consists of
varying sized controlled
environment rooms designed
to accommodate from 12 to
48 mushroom trays each.
The total number of trays
used per year will nearly
double the output of the
Center.
The addition also contains
a modest officedaboratory.
An additional storage
building has also been
constructed adjacent to the
present composing shed.
The addition actually is a
replacement of previous
research space lost in 1968
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when an old mushroom
house was razed to make
room for a parking area
behind the new Theatre Arts
Building on central campus.
The old mushroom house
was constructed in 1928 by a
gift from the Mushroom
Growers Association of
Kennett Square. It had been
used in recent years
primarily for research on
mushroom diseases.
Research contemplated
for the total facility in
cludes: investigation into
composing procedures and
ingredients for increased
mushroom production ef
ficiency; interaction of
mushroom strains with
cropping practices;
mushroom disease studies
and new chemical and
biological control
measurers; interaction of
nutrient level, mushroom
strain, and environment on
mushroom production;
investigations into the
function of the casing layer
and development of syn
thetic materials for casing;
and pysiology of fruiting of
the cultivated mushroom or
other mushrooms with
potential economic value.
“The expanded facility
will provide space for
graduate education and
research which had to be
curtailed in recent years
because of inadequate
cropping area. We believe
the Center, when completed,
will be the finest educational
and research unit for the
cultivated mushroom in the
world,” Dr. Tammen af
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