Black liquor: a potential moistening agent for production of cost-effective hydrolytic enzymes by a newly isolated cellulo-xylano fungal strain Aspergillus tubingensis and its role in higher saccharification efficiency
Narra, M.; Rudakiya, D.M.; Macwan, K.; Patel, N.
Bioresource Technology 306: 123149
2020
ISSN/ISBN: 1873-2976 PMID: 32179401 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2020.123149
Accession: 069921498
In the present study, black liquor generated during mild alkali pre-treatment was evaluated as a moistening agent to produce cost effective hydrolytic enzymes using novel cellulo-xylano fungal strain Aspergillus tubingensis M7. The fungus competently produced 21.90 and 22.46 filter paper, 1004 and 1369 endoglucanase, 117 and 142 β-glucosidase and 8188 and 7981 U/g xylanase activity by using modified Mandel & weber's and black liquor medium, respectively. The crude hydrolytic enzymes from black liquor were evaluated for saccharification of pre-treated biomass. Reducing sugar yields (mg/g substrate) and the corresponding saccharification efficiency (%) from rice straw, corncob, sugarcane bagasse and banana stem were 745.50 (86.02; 18 h); 596 (74.50; 24 h); 358.15 (42.98; 24 h) and 245.70 (33.00; 24 h), respectively. Residual biomass compositional analysis revealed that reduced onset temperature, increased activation energy and pre-exponential factor in saccharified biomass as compared to pre-treated and untreated biomass, suggesting their utilization for pyrolysis to obtain value added products.