Author:
GALIĆ MILICA, ,STAJIĆ MIRJANA,ĆILERDŽIĆ JASMINA, ,
Abstract
The main goal of this study was to analyze the potential of Trichoderma viride BEOFB 1210m for cellulase production during solid-state fermentation of wheat straw pretreated with the ligninosome of a well-known white-rot delignificator – Pleurotus pulmonarius HAI 573. After only 7 days of T. viridae BEOFB 1210m cultivation on biologically pretreated wheat straw, this micromycete produced the most active xylanases, which were also the dominant enzymes, with a value of even 3730.10 U L-1. Likewise, maximal but much lower values of exocellulases (155.83 U L-1) and β-glucosidases (59.98 U L-1) were detected after the same period of fermentation. However, much higher activity of endocellulase (2439.55 U L-1) was obtained on the 10th day. The dynamics of enzyme activity was reflected on the level of substrate depolymerization. As much as 30.56% of the cellulose was degraded already on the 7th day, and that percentage did not change significantly until the end of the cultivation period. A significant loss of hemicelluloses was also measured at the beginning of the fermentation process, but it reached a maximum of approximately 50% by the 21st day. The results clearly showed that the selected T. viride strain has very good potential to synthesize highly active cellulases when grown on a cheap and available substrate, which is significant for further large-scale industrial applications.
Publisher
Institutul de Chimie Macromoleculara Petru Poni
Subject
Materials Chemistry,Organic Chemistry