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dc.contributor.authorRamarajan, R.
dc.contributor.authorManohar, C.S.
dc.date.accessioned2018-06-06
dc.date.accessioned2018-10-23T09:25:00Z
dc.date.available2017-04-03
dc.date.available2018-10-23T09:25:00Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.identifier.citationBioremediation Journal, vol.21(2); 2017; 89-99
dc.identifier.issn1088-9868
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1080/10889868.2017.1282937
dc.identifier.urihttp://drs.nio.org/drs/handle/2264/7862
dc.description.abstractAgricultural wastes have attractive potential as alternate energy sources. However, a major bottleneck is to identify eco-friendly treatment methodologies to utilize them. The large diversity of unexplored, novel, and potential microorganisms hold great promise and require periodic isolation and characterization of microorganisms for bioprospection. In this study, approximately 100 fungal isolates were tested for their lignocellulolytic enzyme activities, based on plate assay, followed by quantification of enzyme activity. From this, M2E (Inonotus tropicalis) and 2a (Cerrena unicolor) showed good growth and proficient ligninolytic activity; isolates GK1 (Chaetomium globosum) and GK2 (Chaetomium brasiliense) exhibited exceptional cellulolytic activity on lignocellulosic substrates such as rice straw and sugarcane bagasse. Consortia of the potential ligninolytic and cellulolytic isolates were set up to determine their ability to biodegrade the lignocellulosic substrates such as rice straw and sugarcane bagasse. The efficiency of the consortia was determined on the basis of the increase in enzyme activity; it was also evident through scanning electron microscopy, x-ray diffraction analysis of the degraded substrates, and the sugar yield. Experiments were also carried out to compare the biological with the physical pretreatment methods. The consortium of ligninolytic and cellulolytic marine-derived fungi developed in this study prove to have the potential for application in the effective utilization of agricultural wastes.
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis
dc.relation.ispartofBioremediat J
dc.relation.isreferencedbySCI
dc.titleBiological pretreatment and bioconversion of agricultural wastes, using ligninolytic and cellulolytic fungal consortia
dc.typeJournal Article
dc.affiliation.authorCSIR-National Institute of Oceanography, Dona Paula, Goa, India


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