VBT001 MUSHROOM CULTIVATION

Programme: B.Tech – Bio-Technology Category: VC

AIM

To increase quality, productivity skills development in the mushroom cultivation and specialized in

increase the economy of students through processing technology.

COURSE OUTCOMES:

The students will be able to

CO1. Ensure to identify the edible and poisonous mushrooms.

CO2. Perform to bed preparation, cultivation, pests and diseases management and post

harvesting.

CO3. Create awareness about the marketing trends of Mushrooms.

CO4. Apply the exposure to the experiences of experts in the field and to functioning

mushroom farms.

CO5. Plan and perform students to learn a means of self-employment and income generation.

MUSHROOM CULTIVATION

Day 1 Introduction: General History, Edible mushrooms and Poisonous mushrooms. Common

Indian mushrooms. Nutritional value, medicinal value and advantages.

Day 2 Systematic position, morphology, distribution, structure and life cycle of Agaricus.

Cultivation: Paddy straw mushroom – substrate, spawn making.

Day 3 Methods – bed method, polythene bag method, field cultivation. Oyster mushroom

cultivation –Substrate, spawning, pre-treatment of substrate. Maintenance of mushroom.

Day 4

Diseases – Common pests, disease prevention and control measures. Processing – Blanching,

steeping, sun drying, canning, pickling, freeze drying. Storage – short term and long-term

storage.

Day 5 Production level, economic return, Foreign exchange from Mushroom cultivating countries

and international trade.

VBT001 MUSHROOM CULTIVATION

Programme: B.Tech – Bio-Technology Category: VC

AIM

To increase quality, productivity skills development in the mushroom cultivation and specialized in

increase the economy of students through processing technology.

COURSE OUTCOMES:

The students will be able to

CO1. Ensure to identify the edible and poisonous mushrooms.

CO2. Perform to bed preparation, cultivation, pests and diseases management and post

harvesting.

CO3. Create awareness about the marketing trends of Mushrooms.

CO4. Apply the exposure to the experiences of experts in the field and to functioning mushroom

farms.

CO5. Plan and perform students to learn a means of self-employment and income generation.

MUSHROOM CULTIVATION

Day 1 Introduction: General History, Edible mushrooms and Poisonous mushrooms. Common

Indian mushrooms. Nutritional value, medicinal value and advantages.

Day 2 Systematic position, morphology, distribution, structure and life cycle of Agaricus.

Cultivation: Paddy straw mushroom – substrate, spawn making.

Day 3 Methods – bed method, polythene bag method, field cultivation. Oyster mushroom cultivation

–Substrate, spawning, pre-treatment of substrate. Maintenance of mushroom.

Day 4

Diseases – Common pests, disease prevention and control measures. Processing – Blanching,

steeping, sun drying, canning, pickling, freeze drying. Storage – short term and long-term

storage.

Day 5 Production level, economic return, Foreign exchange from Mushroom cultivating countries

and international trade.

VBT001 MUSHROOM CULTIVATION

Programme: B.Tech – Bio-Technology Category: VC

AIM

To increase quality, productivity skills development in the mushroom cultivation and specialized in

increase the economy of students through processing technology.

COURSE OUTCOMES:

The students will be able to

CO1. Ensure to identify the edible and poisonous mushrooms.

CO2. Perform to bed preparation, cultivation, pests and diseases management and post

harvesting.

CO3. Create awareness about the marketing trends of Mushrooms.

CO4. Apply the exposure to the experiences of experts in the field and to functioning mushroom

farms.

CO5. Plan and perform students to learn a means of self-employment and income generation.

MUSHROOM CULTIVATION

Day 1 Introduction: General History, Edible mushrooms and Poisonous mushrooms. Common

Indian mushrooms. Nutritional value, medicinal value and advantages.

Day 2 Systematic position, morphology, distribution, structure and life cycle of Agaricus.

Cultivation: Paddy straw mushroom – substrate, spawn making.

Day 3 Methods – bed method, polythene bag method, field cultivation. Oyster mushroom cultivation

–Substrate, spawning, pre-treatment of substrate. Maintenance of mushroom.

Day 4

Diseases – Common pests, disease prevention and control measures. Processing – Blanching,

steeping, sun drying, canning, pickling, freeze drying. Storage – short term and long-term

storage.

Day 5 Production level, economic return, Foreign exchange from Mushroom cultivating countries

and international trade.

VBT001 MUSHROOM CULTIVATION

Programme: B.Tech – Bio-Technology Category: VC

AIM

To increase quality, productivity skills development in the mushroom cultivation and specialized in

increase the economy of students through processing technology.

COURSE OUTCOMES:

The students will be able to

CO1. Ensure to identify the edible and poisonous mushrooms.

CO2. Perform to bed preparation, cultivation, pests and diseases management and post

harvesting.

CO3. Create awareness about the marketing trends of Mushrooms.

CO4. Apply the exposure to the experiences of experts in the field and to functioning mushroom

farms.

CO5. Plan and perform students to learn a means of self-employment and income generation.

MUSHROOM CULTIVATION

Day 1 Introduction: General History, Edible mushrooms and Poisonous mushrooms. Common

Indian mushrooms. Nutritional value, medicinal value and advantages.

Day 2 Systematic position, morphology, distribution, structure and life cycle of Agaricus.

Cultivation: Paddy straw mushroom – substrate, spawn making.

Day 3 Methods – bed method, polythene bag method, field cultivation. Oyster mushroom cultivation

–Substrate, spawning, pre-treatment of substrate. Maintenance of mushroom.

Day 4

Diseases – Common pests, disease prevention and control measures. Processing – Blanching,

steeping, sun drying, canning, pickling, freeze drying. Storage – short term and long-term

storage.

Day 5 Production level, economic return, Foreign exchange from Mushroom cultivating countries

and international trade.

VBT002 ADVANCED MOLECULAR TECHNIQUES

Programme: B.Tech – Bio-Technology Category: VC

AIM

The course is aimed to provide advanced platform to understand core principles, techniques and

their experimental basis to enable students acquire a specialised knowledge to develop a technical

solution.

COURSE OUTCOMES:

The students will be able to

CO1. Impart basic and advanced molecular biology concepts and techniques.

CO2. Able to differentiate genomic characterisation and physiology organisms.

CO3. Perform to isolate, identify and sequencing genome.

CO4. Develop the key laboratory skills and practices used in modern forensic science.

CO5. Gain an appreciation and knowledge of how to deal with ethical issues relating to

science.

ADVANCED MOLECULAR TECHNIQUES

Day 1 Isolation of DNA and RNA from plant, animal and microbes.

Day 2 Visualization of nucleic acids in agarose gels - Elution of DNA and RNA from the agarose gel.

Day 3 Blotting techniques – Northern, Southern and Western Blotting.

Day 4 Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism – Rapid Amplified Polymorphic DNA – Amplified

Fragment Length Polymorphism.

Day 5 DNA finger printing analysis for forensic science – Applications.

VBT001 MUSHROOM CULTIVATION

Programme: B.Tech – Bio-Technology Category: VC

AIM

To increase quality, productivity skills development in the mushroom cultivation and specialized in

increase the economy of students through processing technology.

COURSE OUTCOMES:

The students will be able to

CO1. Ensure to identify the edible and poisonous mushrooms.

CO2. Perform to bed preparation, cultivation, pests and diseases management and post

harvesting.

CO3. Create awareness about the marketing trends of Mushrooms.

CO4. Apply the exposure to the experiences of experts in the field and to functioning mushroom

farms.

CO5. Plan and perform students to learn a means of self-employment and income generation.

MUSHROOM CULTIVATION

Day 1 Introduction: General History, Edible mushrooms and Poisonous mushrooms. Common

Indian mushrooms. Nutritional value, medicinal value and advantages.

Day 2 Systematic position, morphology, distribution, structure and life cycle of Agaricus.

Cultivation: Paddy straw mushroom – substrate, spawn making.

Day 3 Methods – bed method, polythene bag method, field cultivation. Oyster mushroom cultivation

–Substrate, spawning, pre-treatment of substrate. Maintenance of mushroom.

Day 4

Diseases – Common pests, disease prevention and control measures. Processing – Blanching,

steeping, sun drying, canning, pickling, freeze drying. Storage – short term and long-term

storage.

Day 5 Production level, economic return, Foreign exchange from Mushroom cultivating countries

and international trade.