Journal
INTERNATIONAL BIODETERIORATION & BIODEGRADATION
Volume 86, Issue -, Pages 265-271Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ibiod.2013.09.016
Keywords
Biopulping; Bioprospecting; Enzymatic hydrolysis; Ethanol; Wood decay fungi
Funding
- Biofuels Center of North Carolina [2009-124-E]
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Novel applications of wood decay fungi were examined for effects on lignin and cellulose degradation, as well as carbohydrate solubility before and after treatment with commercial cellulose hydrolyzing enzymes. Pinus taeda wood chips were incubated with white (Ceriporiopsis subvermispora and Pleurotus ostreatus) and brown (Postia placenta and Fomitopsis cajanderi) rot fungi in an experimental matrix of single stage, simultaneous co-culture, and successive two-stage treatments. Two stage treatments significantly increased the yield of enzymatic hydrolysis by ca. 19% over controls utilizing industrial standard enzyme loading. Furthermore, novel two stage fungal colonization treatments using wild isolates of P. ostreatus and F. cajanderi directly converted ca. 6.4-7.4% of the bulk biomass into soluble reducing sugars without downstream enzymatic hydrolysis. This study is the first to report significant liberation of depolymerized reducing sugars from fungally-decayed wood chips without enzymatic hydrolysis treatment. This observation has significant potential utility in future fungal biopulping applications for lignocellulosic ethanol. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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