Fungal pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomass

C Wan, Y Li - Biotechnology advances, 2012 - Elsevier
Pretreatment is a crucial step in the conversion of lignocellulosic biomass to fermentable
sugars and biofuels. Compared to thermal/chemical pretreatment, fungal pretreatment …

Fungal laccase, manganese peroxidase and lignin peroxidase: gene expression and regulation

G Janusz, KH Kucharzyk, A Pawlik, M Staszczak… - Enzyme and Microbial …, 2013 - Elsevier
Extensive research efforts have been dedicated to characterizing expression of laccases
and peroxidases and their regulation in numerous fungal species. Much attention has been …

Laccase‐catalysed oxidations of naturally occurring phenols: from in vivo biosynthetic pathways to green synthetic applications

JR Jeon, P Baldrian, K Murugesan… - Microbial …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Laccases are oxidases that contain several copper atoms, and catalyse single‐electron
oxidations of phenolic compounds with concomitant reduction of oxygen to water. The …

Patterns of lignin degradation and oxidative enzyme secretion by different wood-and litter-colonizing basidiomycetes and ascomycetes grown on beech-wood

C Liers, T Arnstadt, R Ullrich… - FEMS microbiology …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
The degradation of lignocellulose and the secretion of extracellular oxidoreductases were
investigated in beech-wood (Fagus sylvatica) microcosms using 11 representative fungi of …

Phylogenomics of Plant-Associated Botryosphaeriaceae Species

JF Garcia, DP Lawrence, A Morales-Cruz… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The Botryosphaeriaceae is a fungal family that includes many destructive vascular
pathogens of woody plants (eg, Botryosphaeria dieback of grape, Panicle blight of …

Fomitiporia mediterranea M. Fisch., the historical Esca agent: a comprehensive review on the main grapevine wood rot agent in Europe

S Moretti, A Pacetti, R Pierron… - Phytopathologia …, 2021 - torrossa.com
Fomitiporia mediterranea M. Fisch.(Fmed) is a basidiomycete first described in 2002, and
was considered up to then as part of Fomitiporia punctata (P. Karst) Murrill. This fungus can …

The genome of the white-rot fungus Pycnoporus cinnabarinus: a basidiomycete model with a versatile arsenal for lignocellulosic biomass breakdown

A Levasseur, A Lomascolo, O Chabrol… - BMC genomics, 2014 - Springer
Background Saprophytic filamentous fungi are ubiquitous micro-organisms that play an
essential role in photosynthetic carbon recycling. The wood-decayer Pycnoporus …

Anthropogenic N deposition increases soil C storage by reducing the relative abundance of lignolytic fungi

EM Entwistle, DR Zak, WA Argiroff - Ecological Monographs, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition has increased dramatically since preindustrial times
and continues to increase across many regions of the Earth. In temperate forests, this agent …

Peculiarities of Pycnoporus species for applications in biotechnology

A Lomascolo, E Uzan-Boukhris… - Applied microbiology …, 2011 - Springer
The genus Pycnoporus forms a cosmopolitan group of four species belonging to the
polyporoid white-rot fungi, the most representative group of homobasidiomycetes causing …

Lignin-degrading peroxidases from genome of selective ligninolytic fungus Ceriporiopsis subvermispora

E Fernández-Fueyo, FJ Ruiz-Dueñas, Y Miki… - Journal of Biological …, 2012 - ASBMB
The white-rot fungus Ceriporiopsis subvermispora delignifies lignocellulose with high
selectivity, but until now it has appeared to lack the specialized peroxidases, termed lignin …