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Microbial biodegradation of cellophase.

E Lamot·J P Voets
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The microbial biodegradation of cellophane (U.C.B.--Division Sidac) was studied. Preliminary experiments with pure cultures of seven cellulolytic microorganisms (Aspergillus sp., Penicillium sp., Chaetomium crispatum, Ch. globosum, Sclerotium rolfsii and two actinomycetes) revealed that the substrate as such was very recalcitrant, probably due to the occurrence of insoluble coating agents. Therefore, mixed cultures of the above mentioned cellulolytic microorganisms were used as inoculum. The cellophane showed a slow microbial degradation which starts only after 37 days of incubation. This long lag-phase is due to the unaltered presence of the coating agents. However, when the coating agents are extracted with tetrahydrofuran, the biodegradation starts after 10 days, resulting in a biodegradation rate of 85% after 52 days of incubation and a protein content of 30%. The endproduct (30% protein, 60% soluble sugars, 10% residual substrate) will probably be useful as compost.

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E Lamot, J P Voets. 1978. Microbial biodegradation of cellophase.. https://doi.org/10.1002/jobm.3630180305

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