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Improved Treatment and Utilization of Rice Straw by Coprinopsis cinerea

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As one of the most abundant renewable resources, rice straw is an attractive lignocellulosic material for animal feeding or for the production of biochemical. An appropriate pre-treatment technique is essential for converting rice straw to rich fodder or biofuel. Based on previous work, Coprinopsis cinerea can grow on rice straw medium and therefore it is useful for the treatment of rice straw. However, little is known regarding its degradation systems and nutrition values. In this study, we firstly found that C. cinerea could grow rapidly on rice straw without any additives by the production of a series of enzymes (laccase, cellulase, and xylanase) and that the microstructure and contents of rice straw changed significantly after being treated by C. cinerea. We propose that a possible underlying mechanism exists in the degradation. Moreover, C. cinerea has a high nutrition value (23.5% crude protein and 22.2% total amino acids). Hence, fermented rice straw with mycelium could be a good animal feedstuff resource instead of expensive forage. The direct usage of C. cinerea treatment is expected to be a practical, cost-effective, and environmental-friendly approach for enhancing the nutritive value and digestibility of rice straw.

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Acknowledgements

The authors are thankful to Prof. Sheng Yuan, College of Life Science, Nanjing Normal University, China, for the gift of mushroom species. This work was supported by the “973” Program of China (Grant No. 2013CB733902), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 21306087), the Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education (Grant No. 20123221110008), the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University, a project funded by the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions, Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University.

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    Wenming Zhang, Sihua Wu, Xiaole Liu, Hao Wu, Fengxue Xin, Min Zhang & Min Jiang

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    Wenming Zhang, Hao Wu, Fengxue Xin & Min Jiang

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Zhang, W., Wu, S., Cai, L. et al. Improved Treatment and Utilization of Rice Straw by Coprinopsis cinerea . Appl Biochem Biotechnol 184, 616–629 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12010-017-2579-0

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