Biological strategies for enhanced hydrolysis of lignocellulosic biomass during anaerobic digestion: current status and future perspectives

S Shrestha, X Fonoll, SK Khanal, L Raskin - Bioresource Technology, 2017 - Elsevier
Lignocellulosic biomass is the most abundant renewable bioresource on earth. In
lignocellulosic biomass, the cellulose and hemicellulose are bound with lignin and other …

[HTML][HTML] PCR and omics based techniques to study the diversity, ecology and biology of anaerobic fungi: insights, challenges and opportunities

JE Edwards, RJ Forster, TM Callaghan… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Anaerobic fungi (phylum Neocallimastigomycota) are common inhabitants of the digestive
tract of mammalian herbivores, and in the rumen, can account for up to 20% of the microbial …

[HTML][HTML] Metatranscriptomics reveals the active bacterial and eukaryotic fibrolytic communities in the rumen of dairy cow fed a mixed diet

S Comtet-Marre, N Parisot, P Lepercq… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Ruminants have a unique ability to derive energy from the degradation of plant
polysaccharides through the activity of the rumen microbiota. Although this process is well …

[HTML][HTML] Anaerobic fungi: past, present, and future

M Hess, SS Paul, AK Puniya… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Anaerobic fungi (AF) play an essential role in feed conversion due to their potent fiber
degrading enzymes and invasive growth. Much has been learned about this unusual fungal …

[HTML][HTML] The sorghum SWEET gene family: stem sucrose accumulation as revealed through transcriptome profiling

H Mizuno, S Kasuga, H Kawahigashi - Biotechnology for biofuels, 2016 - Springer
Background SWEET is a newly identified family of sugar transporters. Although SWEET
transporters have been characterized by using Arabidopsis and rice, very little knowledge of …

[HTML][HTML] Interactions between anaerobic fungi and methanogens in the rumen and their biotechnological potential in biogas production from lignocellulosic materials

Y Li, Z Meng, Y Xu, Q Shi, Y Ma, M Aung, Y Cheng… - Microorganisms, 2021 - mdpi.com
Anaerobic fungi in the digestive tract of herbivores are one of the critical types of fiber-
degrading microorganisms present in the rumen. They degrade lignocellulosic materials …

Seven new Neocallimastigomycota genera from wild, zoo-housed, and domesticated herbivores greatly expand the taxonomic diversity of the phylum

RA Hanafy, VB Lanjekar, PK Dhakephalkar… - Mycologia, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
We isolated and characterized 65 anaerobic gut fungal (AGF; Neocallimastigomycota)
strains from fecal samples of five wild (W, axis deer, white-tailed deer, Boer goat, mouflon …

Horizontal gene transfer as an indispensable driver for evolution of Neocallimastigomycota into a distinct gut-dwelling fungal lineage

CL Murphy, NH Youssef, RA Hanafy… - Applied and …, 2019 - Am Soc Microbiol
Survival and growth of the anaerobic gut fungi (AGF; Neocallimastigomycota) in the
herbivorous gut necessitate the possession of multiple abilities absent in other fungal …

Pecoramyces ruminantium, gen. nov., sp. nov., an anaerobic gut fungus from the feces of cattle and sheep

RA Hanafy, MS Elshahed, AS Liggenstoffer… - Mycologia, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
The anaerobic gut fungi (AGF) inhabit the rumen and alimentary tracts of multiple ruminant
and nonruminant herbivores, belong to a distinct phylum-level lineage …

Fungal bioaugmentation of anaerobic digesters fed with lignocellulosic biomass: What to expect from anaerobic fungus Orpinomyces sp.

Ç Akyol, O Ince, M Bozan, EG Ozbayram, B Ince - Bioresource technology, 2019 - Elsevier
Energy-efficient biogas reactors are often designed and operated mimicking natural
microbial ecosystems such as the digestive tracts of ruminants. Anaerobic fungi play a …