Use of whole crop sorghums as a raw material in consolidated bioprocessing bioethanol production using Flammulina velutipes

Biosci Biotechnol Biochem. 2009 Jul;73(7):1671-3. doi: 10.1271/bbb.90099. Epub 2009 Jul 7.

Abstract

The possibility of using two kinds of sorghum as raw materials in consolidated bioprocessing bioethanol production using Flammulina velutipes was investigated. Enzymatic saccharification of sweet sorghum was not as high as in brown mid-rib (bmr) mutated sorghum, but the amount of ethanol production was higher. Ethanol production from bmr mutated sorghum significantly increased when saccharification enzymes were added to the culture.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Bioelectric Energy Sources*
  • Crops, Agricultural / metabolism*
  • Ethanol / metabolism*
  • Fermentation
  • Flammulina / metabolism*
  • Hydrolysis
  • Kinetics
  • Sorghum / metabolism*

Substances

  • Ethanol