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Evaluation of Feeding a Fibrolytic Enzyme to Lactating Dairy Cows on Their Lactational Performance during Early Lactation

  • Titi, H.H.
    • Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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    • v.16 no.5
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    • pp.677-684
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    • 2003
  • Twenty eight multiparous lactating cows were utilized in an experiment to evaluate the response to an exogenous fibrolytic enzyme on their lactational performance during early lactation period (in terms of milk production, milk composition, feed intake, milking efficiency, body weight change) and the exact time of this response. Cows were randomized into two groups (14 each) with similar parities and were fed a concentrate ration of barley, ground corn, soybean meal, and wheat bran and roughage ration of alfalfa hay. One of the two groups was supplemented with the fibrolytic enzyme immediately after parturition up to 100 post partum. The experiment was of two phases with 50 days each. The enzyme, which has a cellulase/hemicellulase activity (derived from Trichoderma group), was added to the concentrate part of the ration in a dry powder form. Milk production, 3.5% fat corrected milk, energy corrected milk were higher (p<0.05) for cows fed treated diet. At the same time, No differences were observed in percentages of milk components, feed intake, body weight, body weight change, or rectal temperature for the whole experimental period or during any of the two phases. Efficiency of milk production was higher (p<0.05) for treatment group cows than for that of the control ones. However, efficiency was better during the second phase than during the first phase. Feeding enzyme treated diets to dairy cows improved lactational performance during early 100 day of the lactation period. However, the first 50 days of lactation looked to be the critical.

Comparative Studies on Streptomycin Producing Strains and Media (스트렙토마이신 생성균주들과 배지들에 대한 비교연구)

  • 김공환;조영애최석례구양모
    • KSBB Journal
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    • v.4 no.2
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    • pp.162-166
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    • 1989
  • When various strains of Streptomyces griseus and S. galbus were examined for the ability on the production of streptomycin in tryptic soy(TS) broth, S. griseus ATCC 27001 was found to be the best. S. griseus ATCC 12475 and ATCC 23345 showed also good growth and favorable production of streptomycin. Examination of various complex media reported in fermentation literatures for the industrial production of streptomycin indicated that glucose-soybean media-sodium chloride (GSS) broth and K (Chucken) broth gave higher yields of streptomycin than others studied by us. Examination of the ingredients of media producing streptomycin in high yield indicated that some components in soybean activated the production of streptomycin. Addition of meat extract enhanced the yield of streptomycin but it could be substituted with distillers solubles without much effect on the yield. Addition of corn steep liquor decreased the production of streptomycin.

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The Application of Thermotolerant Yeast Kluyveromyces marxianus as a Potential Industrial Workhorse for Biofuel Production

  • Park, Jae-Bum;Kim, Jin-Seong;Jang, Seung-Won;Hong, Eunsoo;Ha, Suk-Jin
    • KSBB Journal
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    • v.30 no.3
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    • pp.125-131
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    • 2015
  • Kluyveromyces marxianus is a well-known thermotolerant yeast. Although Saccharomyces cerevisiae is the most commonly used yeast species for ethanol production, the thermotolerant K. marxianus is more suitable for simultaneous saccharification and fermentation (SSF) processes. This is because enzymatic saccharification usually requires a higher temperature than that needed for the optimum growth of S. cerevisiae. In this study, we compared the fermentation patterns of S. cerevisiae and K. marxianus under various temperatures of fermentation. The results show that at a fermentation temperature of $45^{\circ}C$, K. marxianus exhibited more than two fold higher growth rate and ethanol production rate in comparison to S. cerevisiae. For SSF using starch or corn stover as the sole carbon source by K. marxianus, the high temperature ($45^{\circ}C$) fermentations showed higher enzymatic activities and ethanol production compared to SSF at $30^{\circ}C$. These results demonstrate the potential of the thermotolerant yeast K. marxianus for SSF in the industrial production of biofuels.

Production of Xylanolytic Enzyme Complex from Aspergillus flavus using Agricultural Wastes

  • Kim, Jeong-Dong
    • Mycobiology
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    • v.33 no.2
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    • pp.84-89
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    • 2005
  • Five types of agricultural wastes were used for the production of xylanolytic enzyme by Aspergillus flavus K-03. All wastes materials supported high levels of xylanase and ${\beta}-xylosidase$ production. A high level of proteolytic activity was observed in barley and rice bran cultures, while only a weak proteolytic activity was detected in corn cob, barley and rice straw cultures. Maximum production of xylanase was achieved in basal liquid medium containing rice barn as carbon source for 5 days of culture at pH 6.5 and $25^{\circ}C$. The xylanolytic enzyme of A. flavus K-03 showed low thermostability. The times required for 50% reduction of the initial enzyme activity were 90 min at $40^{\circ}C$, 13 min at $50^{\circ}C$, and 3 min at $60^{\circ}C$. Xylanolytic activity showed the highest level at pH $5.5{\sim}10.5$ and more than 70% of the original activity was retained at pH 6.5 and 7.0. The higher stability of xylanolytic enzymes in the broad range of alkaline pH is useful for utilization of the enzymes in industrial process requiring in alkaline conditions. Moreover, the highest production of xylanolytic enzyme was obtained when 0.5% of rice bran was supplied in basal liquid medium. SDS-PAGE analysis revealed a single xylanase band of approximately 28.5 kDa from the culture filtrates.

Production of Erythromycin Using a Carrier-Spported Mycelial Growth in a Fluidized-Bed Bioreactor (균사 증식 담체를 이용한 유동층 생물반응기에서 Erythromycin의 생산)

  • 김성환;배신규김정희
    • KSBB Journal
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    • v.4 no.3
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    • pp.241-245
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    • 1989
  • A carriersupported mycelial growth of Sreptomyces erythreus was applied to erythromycin fermentation sistem using celite as a support material. Hyphal growth through the pore matrices of the materials showed anchorages and provided a stable biofilm growth. When the phospate concentration was limited to 0.8g corn steep liquor/L(corresponding to 40mg KH2PO4/L), the specific production rate of erythromycin was increased from 557$\mu$g/g-cell.hr under unlimited condition to 2, 898 $\mu$g/g-cell.hr. A fluidized-bed bioreactor was operated for erythromycin production by a repeated fed-batch mode. The control of free mycelial concentration and the extension of production phase were considered important to maintain the reactor productivity at a desired level. The erythromycin production under phosphate-limited condition could be maintained for at least 600hrs.

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Studies on the Production of L-Glutamic Acid by Brevibacterium ammoniagenes (Brevibacterium ammoniagenes에 의한 글루탐산 제조에 관한 연구)

  • Yoo, Young-Jin;Kim, Taik-Yung
    • Korean Journal of Food Science and Technology
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.1-9
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    • 1977
  • A bacterium strain (K-173-10) which was isolated from waste soil of Korea brewing factory, could be grown on acetate as the sole carbon source and accumulated a considerable amount of L-glutamic acid in the medium. This strain was identified as the new species Brevibacterium ammoniagenes. This study was concerned not only with the culture condition for the production of L-glutamic acid and the cell growth, but also with the effects on concentration of various kind of organic substances, growth factors and penicillin. The results obtained were summarized as follow; 1. It was found that the concentrations of acetate and ammonium ions affected the growth of the bacterium as well as its L-glutamate accumulation. The optimum conditions of the composition of grown media for the growth of the bacterium and its glutamic acid production was found to be 40 g/l of total acetate, $100\;{\mu}g/l$ thiamine, $0.5\;{\mu}g/l$ biotin and $1{\sim}2g/l$ corn steep liquor as the growth factors. 2. Organic acid such as succinic acid, malic acid and ${\alpha}-ketoglutaric$ acid inhibited the cell growth as well as its L-glutamic acid production. 3. The penicillin (20 units/ml) stimulated the production of glutamic acid at appropriate incubation period. 4. It was found that this strain could grow in the presence of urea and ammonium acetate but not in other nitrogen sources.

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Screening of Giberella sp. from the Korean Paddy Field for the roduction of Gibberellic Acid and its Cultural Properties (Gibberellic acid를 생산하는 분리주 Gibberella sp. 의 배양학적 특성)

  • 오영준
    • Microbiology and Biotechnology Letters
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    • v.23 no.2
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    • pp.119-122
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    • 1995
  • A different form from Gibberella fujikuroi was isolated from the paddy field of Naju area. The strain, designated as Y107, was identified as Gibberrella sp. based on its morphological, physiological, and biochemical characteristics. The highest production of Gibberellic acid by the strain was achieved in a fermentation medium containing corn starch, glucose, soybean oil, soybean meal, NH$_{4}$NO$_{3}$, K$_{2}$HPO$_{4}$, MgSO$_{4}$, and trace elements.

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