Pleurotus sajor-caju

Chagas EP, Durrant LR (2001) Decolorization of azo dyes by Phanerochaete chrysosporium and Pleurotus sajor-caju. Enzyme Microb Technol 29 473 177... 

Munari FM, Gaio TA, Calloni R, Dillon AJP (2008) Decolorization of textile dyes by enzymatic extract and submerged cultures of Pleurotus sajor-caju. World J Microbiol Biotechnol 24 1383-1392... 

Use of HemiceUuloses and CeUulose and Degradation of Lignin by Pleurotus sajor—caju Grown on Corn Stalks... 

Pleurotus sajor-caju utilizes polysaccharides (cellulose and hemicelluloses) from various agricultural residues to produce mushrooms for human consumption throughout the world (5). It is also known to degrade lignin (6,7). 

Pleurotus sajor-caju was selected in the present study for the utilization of polysaccharides from corn stalks for production of protein-rich mycelial biomass in submerged fermentation rather than for production of mushrooms (fruiting bodies). Production of mycelial biomass of various mushrooms including morels in submerged cultural conditions is another way to use them as food, food additives or mushroom flavor agents (8,9). 

Organism. The culture of Pleurotus sajor-caju (Fr.) Singer (a fungus - an edible mushroom) was maintained on yeast malt agar slant (Difco) at 30°C. When fully grown after a week or so, the cultures were stored at 4 C. 

Inoculum. Pleurotus sajor-caju was grown at 30°C on the above medium containing 1% glucose as a carbon source in 250 ml Erlynmeyer flasks on rotary shaker at 200 rpm for 60 h. The mycelial biomass thus produced was blended in a Waring blender for 1 min. under aseptic conditions in order to obtain an homogenous inoculum of well dispersed mycelial bits. The inoculum was used at the rate of 10% vol/vol. The inoculated experimental Erlynmeyer flasks were incubated at 30 C on a rotary shaker at 200 rpm for various intervals of time. 

Table 2. Utilization of hemicelluloses and cellulose from corn stalks by Pleurotus sajor-caju...

One of the most recent publications dealing with the bioconversion of myrcene [25] described its transformation to a variety of oxygenated metabolites, with Ganoderma applanatum, Pleurotus flabellatus and Pleurotus sajor-caju possessing the highest transformation activity. The extracted metabolites represented a complex mixture of numerous acyclic and monocyclic metabolites of which myrcenol (12) (2-methyl-6-... 

R Bourbonnais, MG Paice. Veratryl alcohol oxidases from the lignin-degrading basidi-omycete Pleurotus sajor-caju. Biochem J 255 445-450, 1988. 

Spawn of these species available Pleurotus ostreatus Pleurotus sajor-caju Pleurotus cornucopiae Pleurotus eryngii Lentinus edodes and Stropharia rugoso-annulata. 

Metabolic pathways of myrcene (302) and citronellene (309) by microorganisms and insects are summarized in Figure 14.205. i-Myrcene (302) was metabolized with Diplodia gossypina ATCC 10936 (Abragam et al., 1985) to the diol (303) and a side-product (304). P-Myrcene (302) was metabolized with Ganoderma applanatum, Pleurotus flabellatus, and Pleurotus sajor-caju to myrcenol (305) (2-methyl-6-methylene-7-octen-2-ol) and 306 (Busmann and Berger, 1994). 

Ferreira and co-workers [150] analysed the potential use of white-rot fungi and hematin for phenol and aniline polymerisation, as a low-cost alternative to HRP. In order to eliminate phenols by precipitation from aqueous solution, Pleurotus sajor-caju derived enzymes, in the absence of H2O2, produced insoluble polyphenol with similar efficiencies to those found with HRP or hematin in a one-step phenol treatment (near 40% phenol conversion). Fungal enzymes look promising for eliminating aniline/phenol from wastewaters, since they are able to polymerise and precipitate them from aqueous solutions. 

Parab, D.N., Dhalagade, J.R., Sahoo, A.K., and Ranveer, R.C. 2012. Effect of incorporation of mushroom (Pleurotus sajor-caju) powder on quality characteristics of Papad (Indian snack food). International journal offood sciences and nutrition, 63(T), 866-70. 

Sahay R, Yadav RSS, Yadav KDS. Purification and characterization of extracellular laccase secreted by Pleurotus sajor-caju MTCC 141. Chin J Biotechnol 2008 24 2068-2073. 

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