Fungal pretreatment of agricultural residues for bioethanol production

The biological pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomass for the production of ethanol is an environmentally friendly process that needs to be evaluated with different feedstocks in order to avoid dependence on a single feedstock. In this study, four agricultural residues (corn stover, barley straw, corncob and wheat straw), selected in terms of their composition and geographic availability, were pretreated using the white-rot fungus Irpex...