A novel brown rot fungus Phaeolus schweinitzii IUM 5048 was firstly used for ethanol production. It was found that this fungus produced ethanol with various sugars, such as glucose, mannose, galactose and cellobiose at 0.28, 0.22, 0.06, and 0.22 g of ethanol per g of sugar consumed, respectively. This fungus showed relatively good ethanol production from xylose at 0.23 g of ethanol per g of sugar consumed. However, the ethanol conversion rate of arabinose was relatively low (at 0.08 g of ethanol per g sugar). P. schweinitzii was capable of producing ethanol directly from rice straw and corn stalks at 0.11 g and 0.13 g of ethanol per g of substrates, respectively, when the fungus was cultured in a basal medium supplemented with 20 g/L rice straw or corn stalks. These results suggest that P. schweinitzii can hydrolyze cellulose or hemicellulose to fermentable sugars and convert them to ethanol simultaneously under oxygen limited condition.
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ABSTRACT Introduction MATERIALS AND METHODS Microorganism Verification of the fungal strain Ethanol production from various sugars Ethanol production from lignocellulosic materials Analytical procedures RESULTS AND DISCUSSION Ethanol production from hexose and disaccharidesugars Ethanol production from pentose sugars Ethanol production from lignocellulosic materials REFERENCES
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Brown rot fungusCellulosic biomassEthanolPhaeolus schweinitzii
저자
Ki Nam Yoon [ Department of Clinical Laboratory Science, Ansan University ]
Tae Soo Lee [ Division of Life Sciences, Incheon National University ]
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