Abstract
Cyathus stercoreus (Schw.) de Toni NRRL 6473, isolated from aged and fragmented cattle dung collected from a Michigan pasture, effected substantial losses in lignin (45%) from wheat straw during a 62-day fermentation (25°C). The basidiomycete also improved wheat straw digestibility by freeing α-cellulose for enzymatic hydrolysis to glucose (230 mg of glucose per 1,000 mg of fermented residue). The rationale for selecting C. stercoreus in attempting to biologically modify the lignin and cellulose components in wheat straw or other gramineous agricultural residues was based on the expectation that this organism is ecologically specialized to enzymatically attack the substructures of native lignins in grasses.
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