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Lignin-degrading activity of edible mushroom Strobilurus ohshimae that forms fruiting bodies on buried sugi (Cryptomeria japonica) twigs

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Strobilurus ohshimae is an edible mushroom, and it specifically forms its fruiting bodies on buried sugi (Cryptomeria japonica) twigs. In this research, we studied lignindegrading activity of S. ohshimae. We isolated 18 strains of S. ohshimae from various regions of Japan, and determined their lignin degradation rates on sugi wood meal medium. All the strains of S. ohshimae degraded approximately 6%–12% of sugi lignin in 30 days, and these lignin degradation rates were 1.5–3 times higher than those of Trametes versicolor, which is a typical lignin-degrading fungus. Among the three main lignin-degrading enzymes, activity of lignin peroxidase and manganese peroxidase was not observed, while 4340U/g of laccase was produced in 30 days. To investigate the effect of wood species on lignin degradation by S. ohshimae, the lignin degradation rate and laccase productivity on sugi wood meal medium were compared with those on beech (Fagus crenata). In T. versicolor, both lignin degradation rate and laccase productivity were higher on beech than on sugi. Conversely, in S. ohshimae, lignin degradation rate and laccase productivity were higher on sugi than on beech. Therefore, it was suggested that coniferous lignin is not always difficult to degrade for the fungi that inhabit softwood.

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  1. Laboratory for Microbial Engineering, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Chiba University, 648 Matsudo, Matsudo, 271-8510, Japan

    Hiroto Homma, Hirofumi Shinoyama, Yukihiro Nobuta, Seigo Amachi & Takaaki Fujii

  2. Chiba Prefectural Forestry Research Center, Sammu, 289-1223, Japan

    Yoshie Terashima

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Part of this article presented at the 54th Annual Meeting of the Japan Wood Research Society, Sapporo, August 2004

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Homma, H., Shinoyama, H., Nobuta, Y. et al. Lignin-degrading activity of edible mushroom Strobilurus ohshimae that forms fruiting bodies on buried sugi (Cryptomeria japonica) twigs. J Wood Sci 53, 80–84 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10086-006-0810-7

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