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- Title
Pre‐treatment with Trichoderma viride: Towards a better understanding of its consequences for anaerobic digestion.
- Authors
Markt, Rudolf; Prem, Eva Maria; Lackner, Nina; Mutschlechner, Mira; Illmer, Paul; Wagner, Andreas Otto
- Abstract
Understanding and optimising biological pre‐treatment strategies for enhanced bio‐methane production is a central aspect in second‐generation biofuel research. In this regard, the application of fungi for pre‐treatment seems highly promising; however, understanding the mode of action is crucial. Here, we show how aerobic pre‐treatment of crystalline cellulose with the cellulolytic Trichoderma viride affects substrate degradability during mesophilic, anaerobic digestion. It could be demonstrated that fungal pre‐treatment resulted in a slightly reduced substrate mass. Nevertheless, no significant impact on the overall methane yield was found during batch fermentation. Short chain organic acids accumulation, thus, overall degradation dynamics including methane production kinetics were affected by the pre‐treatment as shown by Gompertz modelling. Finally, 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing followed by ANCOM‐BC resulted in up to 53 operative taxonomic units including fermentative, syntrophic and methanogenic taxa, whereby their relative abundances were significantly affected by fungal pre‐treatment depending on the duration of the pre‐treatment. The results demonstrated the impact of soft rot fungal pre‐treatment of cellulose on subsequent anaerobic cellulose hydrolysis as well as on methanogenic activity. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to investigate the direct causal effects of pre‐treatment with T. viride on basic but crucial anaerobic digestion parameters in a highly standardised approach.
- Subjects
ANAEROBIC digestion; TRICHODERMA viride; SUBSTRATES (Materials science); CELLULOSE; BIOMASS energy; METHANE as fuel
- Publication
Environmental Microbiology Reports, 2024, Vol 16, Issue 4, p1
- ISSN
1758-2229
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1758-2229.13281