Journal of Ecology and Rural Environment ›› 2017, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (3): 275-280.doi: 10.11934/j.issn.1673-4831.2017.03.012

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Screening and Identification of an Efficient Strain of Bacteria Degumming Eichhornia crassipes

YANG Qing1,2, ZHANG Chao-qi1, MA Li-xiao1, ZHOU Wen-bing1,2, ZHU Duan-wei1,2, ZHOU Yi-yong3, XIAO Nai-dong1,2   

  1. 1. Laboratory of Eco-Environmental Engineering Research, Microelement Research Center, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China;
    2. The Cooperative Innovation Center for Sustainable Pig Production of Hubei Province, Wuhan 430070, China;
    3. State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Wuhan 430072, China
  • Received:2016-06-17 Online:2017-03-25 Published:2017-03-25

Abstract:

Pretreatment is the most expensive and critical step of converting biomass into energy, while biological pretreatment has attracted extensive attention for its environmental friendliness and low energy consumption. In order to find a bacteria efficient for use in biological pretreatment, degumming efficiency was chosen as the scale for strain screening. A strain, coded as A1, was isolated from the environmental media where Eichhornia crassipes grew through enrichment culture and primary screening with the Congo red plate staining method, and tested to be a strain quite efficient in degumming water hyacinth. Under the optimal conditions, Strain A1 could secrete pectinase, xylanase and cellulase as high as 3 925.00, 8 331.67 and 4 883.62 nmol·s-1·mL-1, respectively, in activity. When used in pretreatment, it could reduce the weight of water hyacinth by 33.37% through one round of degumming, and cumulatively by 49.26% after three rounds of degumming. The strain was identified as Bacillus amyloliquefaciens by means of 16S rRNA sequencing and phylogenetic tree analysis.

Key words: degumming, Eichhornia crassipes, screening, Bacillus amyloliquefaciens

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