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ENZYME AND MICROBIAL TECHNOLOGY
Volume 46, Issue 3-4, Pages 223-228Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.enzmictec.2009.09.008
Keywords
Stoned olive pomace; Pleurotas spp.; Solid-state fermentation; Dephenolization; Upgrading
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- Italian Ministry of Agricultural and Forest Policy (MIPAF)
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The use of stoned olive pomace (SOP) as all unconventional feedstuff for livestock is limited by its inherently low crude protein (CP) content and by the presence of anti-nutritional compounds such as phenols. Aim of this study was to assess whether solid-state fermentation of SOP with selective lignin-degrading fungi might ameliorate nutritional properties of the waste. Incubation of SOP, mixed (25%, w/w) with various conventional feedstuffs (i.e., wheat bran. wheat middlings, barley grains, crimson clover, wheat flour shorts and field beans), with Pleurotus ostreatus and Pleurotus pulmonarius led to significant CP increases, ranging from 7 to 29%, and marked removal (from ca. 50-90%) of phenols after 6 weeks. Both species, however, led to moderate delignification associated with significant consumption of hemicelluloses. Consequently, no improvements of both organic matter digestibility (OMD) and net energy of SOP-feedstuff mixtures occurred after the fungal colonization. (C) 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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