Isolation of a bacterium capable of degrading peanut hull lignin
Thirty-seven bacterial strains capable of degrading peanut hull lignin were isolated by using four types of lignin preparations and hot-water-extracted peanut hulls. One of the isolates, tentatively identified as Arthrobacter species, was capable of utilizing all four lignin preparations as well as extracted peanut hulls as a sole source of carbon. The bacterium was also capable of degrading specifically labeled (/sup 14/C) lignin-labeled lignocellulose and (/sup 14/C)cellulose-labeled lignocellulose from the cordgrass Spartina alterniflora and could also degrade (/sup 14/C) Kraft lignin from slash pine. After 10 days of incubation with (/sup 14/C) cellulose-labeled lignocellulose or (/sup 14/C) lignin-labeled lignocellulose from S. alterniflora, the bacterium mineralized 6.5% of the polysaccharide component and 2.9% of the lignin component. (Refs. 24).
- Research Organization:
- Univ. of Georgia, Athens
- OSTI ID:
- 6701570
- Journal Information:
- Appl. Environ. Microbiol.; (United States), Journal Name: Appl. Environ. Microbiol.; (United States) Vol. 46:5; ISSN AEMID
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
AGRICULTURAL WASTES
BACTERIA
BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES
BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES
BIOASSAY
BIODEGRADATION
CARBOHYDRATES
CARBON 14
CARBON ISOTOPES
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
DECOMPOSITION
EVEN-EVEN NUCLEI
ISOTOPE APPLICATIONS
ISOTOPES
LIGHT NUCLEI
LIGNIN
MICROORGANISMS
NUCLEI
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
ORGANIC WASTES
PEANUTS
POLYSACCHARIDES
RADIOISOTOPES
SACCHARIDES
SEEDS
SPECIES DIVERSITY
TRACER TECHNIQUES
WASTES
YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES