Table 1 The potential of filamentous fungi as CBP agents
Organism | Number of strains tested | Theoretical ethanol yield from biomass (%)a | Reference | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cellulose | Other lignocellulose | Glucose | Xylose | |||
Aspergillus awamori | 2 | 1.5–1.1 | – | 28.2–23.5 | 5.4–3.5 | Skory et al. (1997) |
A. foetidus | 1 | 1.1 | – | 20.3 | 13.3 | Skory et al. (1997) |
A. niger | 1 | 0.7 | – | 22.3 | 4.7 | Skory et al. (1997) |
A. oryzae | 4 | 3.1–2.3 | – | 95.6–62.3 | 18.4–10.1 | Skory et al. (1997) |
A. sojae | 6 | 1.5–2.7 | – | 56.4–31.3 | 21.1–8.2 | Skory et al. (1997) |
A. tamari | 5 | 2.3–0.3 | – | 72.9–38.4 | 13.7–11.3 | Skory et al. (1997) |
Fusarium oxysporum | 3 | 89.2 (alkali-treated) | – | 80 | 48 | Christakopoulos et al. (1989) |
F. oxysporum | 1 | – | 83 (ball milled wheat straw); 67 (alkali treated wheat straw) | – | – | |
F. oxysporum | 17 | Â | 19.7 (untreated wheat straw); 80.2 (alkali treated wheat straw) | Â | Â | Ali et al. (2012b) |
Flammulina velutipes | 1 | – | 57.2 (sweet sorghums) | – | – | Mizuno et al. (2009) |
Fomitopsis palustris | 1 | 88.2 (cellobiose) | – | 90.2 | – | Okamoto et al. (2011b) |
Gloeophyllum trabeum | 1 |  | 10.4 (pretreated corn fiber) | – | – | Rasmussen et al. (2010) |
Mucor indicus | 1 | 61 (avicel) | 68 (rice straw) | – | – | Karimi et al. (2006) |
Monilia sp. | 1 | 60 | – | – | – | Gong et al. (1981) |
Mucor hiemalis | 1 | – | 80 (pretreated sweet sorghum bagasse) | – | – | Goshadrou et al. (2011) |
Neurospora crassa | 1 | 60 | – | – | – | Rao et al. (1983) |
N. crassa | 1 | 100 (avicel) 91 (alkali-treated) | 54 (alkali treated sugarcane bagasse) | 96.9 | 64.2 | Deshpande et al. (1986) |
N. crassa | 1 | – | 11.76 (sorghum bagasse) | – | – | Dogaris et al. (2009) |
Phanerochaete chrysosporium | 1 | – | 6.8 (corn fiber) | – | – | Shrestha et al. (2010) |
Phlebia sp. | 1 | Â | 65.7 (alkali treated sugarcane bagasse) | Â | Â | Khuong et al. (2014) |
Paecilomyces sp. | 1 | Â | 18 (wheat bran and brewers spent grain mix) | 61.8 | 82 | Zerva et al. (2014) |
Paecilomyces sp. | 1 | 78.4 | – | – | 78 | Wu (1989) |
Rhizopus javanicus | 3 | 5–1.9 | – | 92.1–48.6 | 45.8–6.6 | Skory et al. (1997) |
R. oryzae | 6 | 5.4–.7 | – | 99.5–58.4 | 42.3–3.9 | Skory et al. (1997) |
R. oryzae | 1 | 76 (avicel) | 74 (rice straw) | – | – | Karimi et al. (2006) |
Trichoderma harzianum | 1 | 7.8 | – | 19.6 | 2.3 | Stevenson and Weimer (2002) |
T. reesei | 1 | – | 14.5 (corn fiber) | – | – | Shrestha et al. (2010) |
Trametes hirsuta | 1 | – | 78.8 (wheat bran), 57.4 (rice straw) | 96 | 86.2 | Okamoto et al. (2011a) |