Effect of steam explosion and microbial fermentation on cellulose and lignin degradation of corn stover

Effect of feeding fermented extruded corn stover on reproductive performance of pregnant sows

“…The fermentation of corn stover for the current study was prepared as described by Chang et al (2012). Briefly, commercial baking yeast was purchased and used as Saccharomyces cerevisie to speed up the fermentation process.…”

Effects of thermo-chemical pretreatment plus microbial fermentation and enzymatic hydrolysis on saccharification and lignocellulose degradation of corn straw

“…Generally straw is mainly composed of cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin. Enzymatic hydrolysis and microbial fermentation are the promising methods to transfer cellulose and hemicellulose to glucose monomers, alcohol, furfural, animal feedstuffs, energy and other chemical raw materials (Lambert et al, 1990;Chang et al, 2012;Xu et al, 2012). However, the complex three-dimensional polyaromatic matrix of lignin prevents enzymes from accessing some regions of cellulose polymers (Hendriks and Zeeman, 2009).…”

“…It is reported that straw can be http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2015.07.012 0960-8524/Ó 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. turned to animal feedstuffs by physical pretreatment and microbial fermentation (Chang et al, 2012), which will help to solve feed shortage for animal production.…”

Commercial Plant-Produced Recombinant Cellulases for Biomass Conversion

“…The pretreatment is designed to make the highly structured cellulose more accessible to cellulases, but the process tends to destroy lignin structure and generate various inhibitors. Several types of pretreatment have been designed: AFEX (Garlock et al, 2012), steam explosion (Liu et al 2013), and acid steam explosion (Chang et al 2012;Gao et al 2013), among others. An interesting pretreatment that preserves lignin structure uses ethanol to extract lignin as a valuable coproduct (Arato et al 2005).…”