Differential Influence of Supplements on Lignocellulolytic Enzyme Activities, Growth and Production of Pleurotus Ostreatus

1 J Hortic, an open access journal ISSN: 2376-0354 growth of mycelia [5]. Besides enabling the fungus to mineralize recalcitrant lignin materials, laccase enzyme has been shown to provide defence against environmental compounds and toxic fungal metabolites such as aflatoxin [6,7]. On the other hand, cellulase and hemicellulase are hydrolytic enzymes that are respectively known to be involved in degradation of cellulose and hemicellulose plant polymers [8,9]. According to Xie et al. (2016), biological efficiency of a mushroom species is mainly attributed to its hydrolytic enzyme system. Because of the great bearing that lignocellulolytic enzymes have on both the mycelium growth and production of P. ostreatus, a number of studies in recent years have sought to understand how various growth substrates and supplements affect the secretion of these enzymes. For instance, activities of cellulase and laccase enzymes in mushrooms have been shown to be respectively responsible for mycelium colonization and sporophore formation [10,11]. In essence, the expressions of genes that encode these enzymes Differential Influence of Supplements on Lignocellulolytic Enzyme Activities, Growth and Production of Pleurotus Ostreatus Eyalira Jacob Okal*, Ibrahim Datti Lawandi*, Yulong Zhang, Witness Joseph Nyimbo, Li Jing, Lin Hui,Richard Yankey, Lin Dongmei, Lin Zhanxi* Department of Life Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian, China