Isolation and Screening of Lignocellulose Degrading Fungi from Degraded Fruit Litter

Abstract

Biomass is the mass of organic material from any biological material. A wide variety of biomass resources are available on earth for conversion in to bio products, which include whole plants, plant parts, plant constituents, processing by products, materials of marine origin and animal by-products, municipal and industrial wastes. These resources can be used to create new biomaterials (Howard et al., 2003), Mehdi Dashtban, et al., 2010). Lignocelluloses comprise the major structural component of woody plants and non woody plants such as grass. Lignocellulosic wastes are generated in large quantities by forestry and agricultural practices, paper and pulp industries, agro industries, timber industries which pose an environmental pollution problem. Such wastes are also present in municipal solid wastes and animal wastes (Howard et al., 2003; Mehdi Dashtban et al., 2010). Much of the lignocellulose waste is often disposed of by biomass burning, which is considered a global phenomenon. However, the huge amounts of residual plant biomass considered as waste can potentially be converted in to various value added products including biofuels, chemicals, cheap chemicals, cheap energy sources for fermentation, improved animal feeds and human nutrients (Howard et al., 2003). International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences ISSN: 2319-7706 Volume 6 Number 12 (2017) pp. 2200-2206 Journal homepage: http://www.ijcmas.com