Álvaro Astudillo, Emilio Hormazábal, Andrés Quiroz, Olga Rubilar, Gabriela Briceño, Roberto Abdala, Claudio Lamilla, María Cristina Diez, Heidi Schalchli
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Abstract
Background
Discarded potato is the most abundant potato waste and represents a worldwide disposal problem to the potato industry. This agricultural waste contains valuable nutrients that could be used as substrate to obtain diverse high value-added microbial products, such as biopigments. The aim of this work was to evaluate the use of discarded potato as a sole substrate source for producing blue pigments by Streptomyces lydicus PM7 through submerged fermentation.
Results
Initially, the traditional culture medium ISP2 was established as suitable for inoculum preparation, as it allowed high growth rates and consumption of ~ 75% reducing sugar, leading to 1.3 g L−1 dry biomass at 72 h of incubation. The formulated discarded potato broth (DPB) medium was evaluated together with five other traditional liquid culture media (potato dextrose broth, ISP2, ISP3, ISP4, and ISP5) for producing blue pigments by S. lydicus PM7. The highest blue pigment production was obtained by using DPB medium, reaching ~ 0.97 g L−1, followed by ISP5 (~ 0.36 g L−1). In terms of evaluating the concentration of discarded potato powder, the highest concentration of blue pigments was obtained with 16 g L−1, compared to concentrations of 4, 8, and 32 g L−1. In general, a notable increase in total proteins (~ 14 g L−1 in biomass; ~ 8 g L−1 in medium) and reducing sugars (~ 5 g L−1) on the fifth day of DPB fermentation was observed, at which time the production of blue pigments began. These data proved that S. lydicus PM7 is able to degrade potato wastes during submerged fermentation and to direct metabolism towards the formation of biopigments. Chromatographic analysis revealed that the main blue pigment produced by new strain in this complex medium is actinorhodin.
Conclusions
Discarded potato favored the production of blue pigments by S. lydicus PM7 under submerged fermentation, leading to final product concentration almost three times higher than others traditional Streptomyces culture media. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report on the production of actinorhodin by the specie S. lydicus, as well as on this pigment synthesis based on an agricultural waste as a sole nutrient source for fermentation process. The findings showed that potato waste could be a potential byproduct for replacement of commercial culture media using for this same purpose.
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Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture is an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed forum for the advancement and application to all fields of agriculture of modern chemical, biochemical and molecular technologies. The scope of this journal includes chemical and biochemical processes aimed to increase sustainable agricultural and food production, the evaluation of quality and origin of raw primary products and their transformation into foods and chemicals, as well as environmental monitoring and remediation. Of special interest are the effects of chemical and biochemical technologies, also at the nano and supramolecular scale, on the relationships between soil, plants, microorganisms and their environment, with the help of modern bioinformatics. Another special focus is the use of modern bioorganic and biological chemistry to develop new technologies for plant nutrition and bio-stimulation, advancement of biorefineries from biomasses, safe and traceable food products, carbon storage in soil and plants and restoration of contaminated soils to agriculture.
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