Lignocellulolytic activity of Pleurotus ostreatus under solid state fermentation using silage, stover, and cobs of maize

Lignocellulolytic white-rot fungi allow the bioconversion of agricultural wastes into value-added products that are used in a myriad applications. The aim this work was to use corn residues (Zea mays L.) produce valuable under solid-state fermentation (SSF) with Pleurotus ostreatus. White-rot fungus P. ostreatus isolated from maize silage (MS) and thereafter it inoculated on MS as substrate compared stover (MSt) cobs (MC) determine best lignocellulosic for production lignocellulolytic enzymes extracellular protein. gave highest productivity CMCase (368.2 U/mL), FPase (170.5 laccase (11.4 MnPase (6.6 U/mL). This is MSt 222 U/mL, 50.2 4.55 2.57 respectively; MC at same incubation period 150.5 48.2 3.58 2.5 respectively. levels enzyme declined increasing after 15 20 days using MC, respectively, substrates. Maximum liberated protein content (754 878 µg/mL) recorded MS, while low amount (343 408 MC.