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| Samanta,Ashis Kumar; Kolte,A.P.; Elangovan,A.V.; Dhali,A.; Senani,S.; Sridhar,M.; Suresh,K.P.; Jayapal,N.; Jayaram,C.; Roy,Sohini. |
| ABSTRACT Corn husks are the major wastes of corn industries with meagre economic significance. The present study was planned for value addition of corn husk through extraction of xylan, followed by its enzymatic hydrolysis into xylooligosaccharides, a pentose based prebiotic. Compositional analysis of corn husks revealed neutral detergent fibre 68.87%, acid detergent fibre 31.48%, hemicelluloses 37.39%, cellulose 29.07% and crude protein 2.68%. Irrespective of the extraction conditions, sodium hydroxide was found to be more effective in maximizing the yield of xylan from corn husks than potassium hydroxide (84% vs. 66%). Application of xylanase over the xylan of corn husks resulted into production of xylooligosaccharides with different degree of... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Corn waste; Xylan extraction; Prebiotic; Enzymatic process; XOS. |
| Ano: 2016 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-89132016000100512 |
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