Abstract

Seventeen Cyathus stercoreus isolates were tested for their ability to treat rice straw for improved enzymatic saccharification. These isolates showed a negative correlation between cellulase and xylanase activity and enzymatic saccharification yields. Incubation of rice straw pretreated at 60 °C for 15 min with strain C. stercoreus TY-2 for 25 days resulted in an enzymatic saccharification yield of 57% as compared to a yield of 11% for the same straw in the absence of the fungus. These findings highlight the potential of this isolate for biological pretreatment of rice straw under conditions of low energy input.

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