Endophytic Fungi as Pretreatment to Enhance Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Olive Tree Pruning

Figure 1

(a) Glucose digestibility () and (b) xylose digestibility achieved after 168 h of enzymatic hydrolysis of OTP samples subjected to fungal pretreatment (followed by alkali extraction) and a subsequent, or not, acid hydrolysis (acid hydrolysis and nonacid hydrolysis, resp.). Means were calculated from three replicates within each group. Different letters represent significant differences at > 0.05 using contrasts and the best models from Tables 3 and 4.