Different inocula produce distinctive microbial consortia with similar lignocellulose degradation capacity.

ABSTRACT: Despite multiple research efforts, the current strategies for exploitation of lignocellulosic plant matter are still far from optimal, being hampered mostly by the difficulty of degrading the recalcitrant parts. An interesting approach is to use lignocellulose-degrading microbial communities by using different environmental sources of microbial inocula. However, it remains unclear whether the inoculum source matters for the degradation process. Here, we addressed this question by verifying the lignocellulose degradation potential of wheat (Triticum aestivum) straw by microbial consortia generated from three different microbial inoculum sources, i.e., forest soil, canal sediment and decaying wood. We selected these consortia through ten sequential-batch enrichments by dilution-to-stimulatio

SUBMITTER: Cortes-Tolalpa L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4980425 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature