Ho Huu Tho
Senior Member
#25.16
4.1. Biological pretreatments
Fungal pretreatment has been previously explored to upgrade lignocellulosic materials for feed and paper applications. Recently, this environmentally friendly approach has received renewed attention as a pretreatment method for enhancing enzymatic saccharification of lignocellulosic biomass in ethanol production processes. Biological pretreatments employ microorganisms mainly brown, white and soft-rot fungi which degrade lignin and hemicellulose and very little of cellulose, more resistant than the other components (Sánchez, 2009). Lignin degradation by white-rot fungi, the most effective for biological pretreatment of lignocellulosic materials, occurs through the action of lignin-degrading enzymes such as peroxidases and laccases (Kumar et al., 2009a).
4.1. Biological pretreatments
Fungal pretreatment has been previously explored to upgrade lignocellulosic materials for feed and paper applications. Recently, this environmentally friendly approach has received renewed attention as a pretreatment method for enhancing enzymatic saccharification of lignocellulosic biomass in ethanol production processes. Biological pretreatments employ microorganisms mainly brown, white and soft-rot fungi which degrade lignin and hemicellulose and very little of cellulose, more resistant than the other components (Sánchez, 2009). Lignin degradation by white-rot fungi, the most effective for biological pretreatment of lignocellulosic materials, occurs through the action of lignin-degrading enzymes such as peroxidases and laccases (Kumar et al., 2009a).