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Stevens CA, Gregory KF. Production of Microbial Biomass Protein from Potato Processing Wastes by Cephalosporium eichhorniae. Appl Environ Microbiol. 1987;53(2):284-91doi: 10.1128/aem.53.2.284-291.1987.
Stevens, C. A., & Gregory, K. F. (1987). Production of Microbial Biomass Protein from Potato Processing Wastes by Cephalosporium eichhorniae. Applied and environmental microbiology, 53(2), 284-91. https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.53.2.284-291.1987
Stevens, C A, and Gregory, K F. "Production of Microbial Biomass Protein from Potato Processing Wastes by Cephalosporium eichhorniae." Applied and environmental microbiology vol. 53,2 (1987): 284-91. doi: https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.53.2.284-291.1987
Stevens CA, Gregory KF. Production of Microbial Biomass Protein from Potato Processing Wastes by Cephalosporium eichhorniae. Appl Environ Microbiol. 1987 Feb;53(2):284-91. doi: 10.1128/aem.53.2.284-291.1987. PMID: 16347277; PMCID: PMC203653.
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Appl Environ Microbiol. 1987 Feb;53(2):284-91. doi: 10.1128/aem.53.2.284-291.1987.

Production of Microbial Biomass Protein from Potato Processing Wastes by Cephalosporium eichhorniae.

Applied and environmental microbiology

C A Stevens, K F Gregory

Affiliations

  1. Department of Microbiology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario NIG 2W1, Canada.

PMID: 16347277 PMCID: PMC203653 DOI: 10.1128/aem.53.2.284-291.1987

Abstract

The use of Cephalosporium eichhorniae 152 (ATCC 38255) (reclassified as Acremonium alabamense; see Addendum in Proof), a thermophilic, acidophilic, amylolytic fungus, for the conversion of potato processing wastes into microbial protein for use as animal feed was studied. The fungus was not inhibited by alpha-solanine or beta-2-chaconine, antimicrobial compounds in potatoes, or by morpholine or cyclohexylamine (additives to steam used in the peeling process) at levels likely to be encountered in this substrate. Mixed effluent from holding tanks at a potato-processing plant contained about 10 bacteria per ml and inhibited fungal growth. The fungus grew well on fresh potato wastes containing up to 5% total carbohydrate and utilized both starch and protein at 45 degrees C and pH 3.75. On potato homogenate medium containing 2% carbohydrate (about 14% fresh potato) supplemented with monoammonium phosphate (0.506 g/liter) and ferric iron (0.1 g/liter), with pH control (at 3.75) and additional nitrogen supplied by the automatic addition of ammonium hydroxide, typical yields were 0.61 g (dry weight) of product and 0.3 g of crude protein per g of carbohydrate supplied. An aerobic, spore-forming bacterium, related to Bacillus brevis, commonly contaminated nonsterilized batch cultures but was destroyed by heating for 15 min at 100 degrees C.

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