Research Article

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

Table 2

Composition of solid fractions obtained after fungal pretreatment (followed by alkali extraction) and a subsequent, or not, acid hydrolysis (acid hydrolysis and nonacid hydrolysis, resp.). Data are expressed in % (w/w).

SampleEthanol extractivesKlason ligninAcid soluble ligninTotal ligninGlucanXylanArabinan

Nonacid hydrolysis
 Control4.6 ± 0.218.9 ± 0.14.2 ± 0.023.1 ± 0.131.3 ± 0.416.9 ± 0.63.6 ± 0.4
Hormonema sp.4.8 ± 0.121.2 ± 0.84.2 ± 0.025.4 ± 0.829.6 ± 0.515.5 ± 0.33.4 ± 0.0
Ulocladium sp.5.0 ± 0.221.8 ± 0.14.0 ± 0.025.9 ± 0.130.9 ± 0.815.5 ± 0.62.3 ± 0.1
Trametes sp.4.0 ± 0.221.2 ± 0.14.3 ± 0.025.5 ± 0.129.9 ± 0.117.2 ± 0.12.2 ± 0.1
Acid hydrolysis
 Control4.1 ± 0.126.6 ± 0.24.0 ± 0.030.6 ± 0.231.1 ± 0.316.8 ± 0.20.5 ± 0.0
Hormonema sp.3.2 ± 0.226.6 ± 0.43.9 ± 0.030.5 ± 0.431.0 ± 0.417.0 ± 0.30.7 ± 0.2
Ulocladium sp.2.5 ± 0.226.3 ± 0.14.1 ± 0.030.4 ± 0.130.6 ± 0.617.6 ± 0.10.7 ± 0.1
Trametes sp.3.5 ± 0.226.1 ± 0.63.6 ± 0.029.7 ± 0.633.8 ± 0.618.6 ± 0.30.3 ± 0.1