Abstract

ORTIZ MORENO, Martha Lucía  and  URIBE VELEZ, Daniel. Determination of lignocellulolytic activity in a natural substrate of native fungi strains obtained from savanna and of secondary forest from a tropical flooded savanna. Cienc. suelo [online]. 2010, vol.28, n.2, pp.169-180. ISSN 1850-2067.

The aim of this work was to identify lignolytic and cellulolytic fungal strains capable of degrading harvest waste and thereby improving the soil characteristics of the eastern Llanos of Colombia. Sampling was carried out using the transept methodology and integrated samples. A lignolytic strain (005L Verticillium spp.) and 72 cellulolytic strains were obtained. A comparison of soil usages (savanna grazing and secondary forest) showed no correlation between the number of obtained genera and soil characteristics. Selection of the strains to be evaluated in a dry-grass natural substrate (Brachiaria spp.) was carried out by quantification of lignolytic and cellulolytic activity. Two strains with high exoglucanase activity (055C and 061C Penicillium spp.) and a strain with high endoglucanase activity (019C Trichoderma spp.) relative to the Trichoderma viride control were selected and evaluated in the natural substrate in consortia formed by one lignolytic and one cellulolytic. The test showed that the enzymatic activity of the selected strains increased in the substrate grass, surpassing that of the positive controls (Pleurotus ostreatus for lignin and T. viride for cellulose) for both consortia. The use of the consortia is therefore recommended for the development of soil conditioning biofertilizers, especially that formed by the 005L (Verticillium spp.) and 055C (Penicillium spp.) strains with high lignolytic and cellulolytic activity.

Keywords : Llanos; Deuteromycetes; Cellulose; Lignin; Consortia.

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