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Twenty two basidiomycetes, mostly white rot fungi, were grown on wheat straw. Lignin-, cellulose-, and hemicellulose-degradation was recorded in order to find a species growing on lignin preferably. The “oyster-mushroom”Pleurotus sp. “florida” showed fastest delignification of all tested fungi.
Straw pretreated by this fungus was fermented anaerobically to biogas. The gas yield produced from “myco-straw” is twice the amount from untreated straw.
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Müller, H.W., Trösch, W. Screening of white-rot fungi for biological pretreatment of wheat straw for biogas production. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 24, 180–185 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00938793
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