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The ability of 45 fungal strains to degrade wheat straw and beech wood was studied. Degradation patterns were defined in terms of chemical evolution of substrates and changes in lignin and polysaccharides. Trametes versicolor produced an important degradation of lignin and increased substrate digestibility, but it caused high weight losses and gave rise to similar decay patterns on both substrates. A preferential degradation of lignin was produced during straw transformation by Pleurotus eryngii. The increase of soluble lignin and decreases of lignin content and H/C ratio defined the degradation tendency after principal component analysis. The cation exchange capacity and water and alkali solubility presented the highest loading factors for the characterization of fungal transformation of beech wood.
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Valmaseda, M., Almendros, G. & Martínez, A.T. Substrate-dependent degradation patterns in the decay of wheat straw and beech wood by ligninolytic fungi. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 33, 481–484 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00176671
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