Biodegradation of winery biomass wastes by developing a symbiotic multi-fungal consortium (original) (raw)

Australia is sixth largest global wine grape producer with an annual production of 1.75 million metric tonnes in 2012-13. Owing to its poor digestibility and minor phenolic toxicity, winery waste (about a half of total grape biomass) has limited use as either animal feed or compost fertilizer. During fermentation, Saccharomyces cerevisiae generates about 12-15% ethanol from the raw material, with the residual biomass (approx. 85%) consisting of spent wash, seeds, marcs and pomace generating landfill waste. Publications arising from this thesis work Peer-reviewed journal articles Karpe AV, Harding IH & Palombo EA (2014) Comparative degradation of hydrothermal pretreated winery grape wastes by various fungi. Industrial Crops & Products 59: 228-233 Karpe AV, Beale DJ, Harding IH & Palombo EA (In press) Optimization of degradation of winery-derived biomass wastes by Ascomycetes.

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