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Biotechnology
and Environment |
Electronic Journal of Biotechnology
ISSN: 0717-3458 |
Vol. 9 No. 3, Special Issue, 2006 |
© 2006 by Pontificia Universidad Católica
de Valparaíso -- Chile |
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DOI: 10.2225/vol9-issue3-fulltext-2 |
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Biodegradation
of agroindustrial wastes by
Pleurotus spp for its use as ruminant feed
Silvana Alborés*
Departamento
de Biociencias
Facultad de Química
Universidad de la República
Av. Gral. Flores 2124
Montevideo 11800,
Uruguay
Tel: 0598 2 9244209
Fax: 0598 2 9241906
E-mail: salbores@fq.edu.uy
María
Julia Pianzzola
Departamento de Biociencias
Facultad de Química
Universidad de la República
Av. Gral. Flores 2124
Montevideo 11800,
Uruguay
Tel: 0598 2 9244209
Fax: 0598 2 9241906
E-mail: mpianzzo@fq.edu.uy
Matilde
Soubes
Departamento de Biociencias
Facultad de Química
Universidad de la República
Av. Gral. Flores 2124
Montevideo 11800,
Uruguay.
Tel: 0598 2 9244209
Fax: 0598 2 9241906
E-mail: msoubes@fq.edu.uy
María
Pía Cerdeiras
Departamento de Biociencias
Facultad de Química
Universidad de la República
Av. Gral. Flores 2124
Montevideo 11800,
Uruguay
Tel: 0598 2 9244209
Fax: 0598 2 9241906
E-mail: mcerdeir@fq.edu.uy
*Corresponding
author
Financial
support: Project INIA-LIA 057, CSIC 308 and by the Maestría en
Biotecnología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de la
República, Uruguay.
Keywords:
agroindustry, basidiomycetes, ruminant feed.
Abbreviations: |
ADF: acid detergent fibre
cfg/g: colony forming units per gram
ITS: internal transcribed spacer region
NDF: neutral detergent fibre
PCR: polymerase chain reaction
RFLP: restriction fragment length polymorphism
SSF: solid substrate fermentation
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The increasing expansion
of agro-industrial activity has led to the accumulation of a large
quantity of lignocellulosic residues all over the world. In particular,
large quantities of rice straw (300.000 t) and citric bagasse (50.000
t) are annually produced in Uruguay.
In this work we present the study of the bioconversion of these substrates
with the edible mushroom Pleurotus spp so as to increase nutritional
values and digestibility for its use as animal feed. The SSF process
was optimized and the products after different periods of mushroom
growth were evaluated. The microbial counts (cfu/g) for the inoculated
substrates 44 days after incubation were 15 x 104, <
10 and < 10 for aerobic microorganisms, coliforms and E. coli,
respectively. After 14 days of SSF the percentage of dry matter, ADF
and NDF decreased, and the content of protein increased. These results
show that vegetal cell-wall components were degraded during the period
of mushroom incubation. PCR – RFLP analysis of the ITS region was
used to characterize the Pleurotus species produced in Uruguay
and discriminate between DNAs of Pleurotus ostreatus 814 and
other fungi from the different substrates.
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