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Journal of Agricultural Science; Vol. 9, No. 5; 2017
ISSN 1916-9752 E-ISSN 1916-9760
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Influence of Substrate Composition on β-Glucans Production and
Growth of Ganoderma lucidum
Katia Atoji-Henrique
1
, Douglas Sampaio Henrique
1
, Leonardo Siqueira Glória
2
, Sérgio Miguel Mazaro
1
& Maira Casagrande
1
1
Federal University of Technology – Paraná, Câmpus Dois Vizinhos, Paraná, Brazil
2
State University of the North Fluminense, Campos dos Goytacazes, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Correspondence: Katia Atoji-Henrique, Animal Science Department, Federal University of Technology – Paraná,
Câmpus Dois Vizinhos, 85660-000, Paraná, Brazil. Tel: 55-46-3536-8418. E-mail: katiaatoji@utfpr.edu.br
Received: February 20, 2017 Accepted: March 22, 2017 Online Published: April 15, 2017
doi:10.5539/jas.v9n5p190 URL: https://doi.org/10.5539/jas.v9n5p190
Abstract
Ganoderma lucidum is a medicinal mushroom known and used for centuries in China, claimed as beneficial for
health due to the immunological effects provided by (1-3)β, (1-6)β-glucans present in its cell wall. Agricultural
residues can be used as substrate for solid-state fermentation and turned into a product rich in β-glucans, that can
be used for animal feeding, enhancing the immune response and, thus, reducing the utilization of antibiotics and
other drugs. Therefore, colonization rate (growth), yield and concentration of (1-3)β, (1-6)β-glucans of different
agricultural residues, such as soybean hulls, soybean residue and corn residue after solid state fermentation with
G. l u c i d u m were determined and evaluated according to their composition before fermentation. Specific growth
rate (k) was higher for soybean hulls (k
1
= 0.165) and corn residue (k
3
= 0.161), but concentration of (1-3)β,
(1-6)β-glucans was higher in soybean residue (234.09 mg g
-1
) and soybean hulls (180.32 mg g
-1
). Considering
the nutritional composition of substrates, the concentration of (1-3)β, (1-6)β-glucan can be related to the ratio
between fiber carbohydrates and total carbohydrates, demonstrating that fiber is an important feature regarding
the production of β-glucans by the fungus. Also, colonization rate can be related to the total carbohydrates
concentration and total carbohydrates/crude protein ratio, showing that carbohydrates and proteins have an
important effect over the growth of the fungus. Soybean hulls showed to be the most feasible substrate for G.
lucidum mycelia production presenting high concentration of (1-3)β, (1-6)β-glucans and colonization rate, with
potential to be a dietary supplement for farm animals.
Keywords: fermentation, fiber, fungi
1. Introduction
Ganoderma lucidum, known as Reishi in Japan, and Lingzhi in China, is a basidiomycete, wood decaying
mushroom, traditionally used in China for centuries and considered as a medicinal mushroom that enhances
health and promotes longevity. Commercialization and manufacturing of this mushroom and its products
represent an economic impact of 2.5 million dollars in the United States (Bishop et al., 2015). The commercial
products can be found as fruiting body (as teas, powder or capsules), spores (capsules) and mycelium (in grains
or capsules). However; it takes 45 to 150 days to produce fruiting bodies and spores, depending on genetics and
environmental factors such as temperature, humidity and photoperiod (Rolim, Sales-Campos, Cavalcanti, &
Urben, 2015).
Substances that provide therapeutic characteristics to this mushroom, named bioactive compounds, include
polysaccharides, dietary fibers, oligosaccharides, triterpenoids, peptides, proteins, alcohols, phenols, mineral
elements, vitamins and amino acids. The therapeutic properties are directly related to the immunological
properties of those substances, and (1,3)β, (1,6)β-glucans are the most studied (Batra, Sharma, & Khajuria,
2013).
Mycelium of G. l u c i d u m contains the same bioactive compounds of fruiting body at similar concentrations, and
the time for production is very much lesser, varying from 7 to 30 days (Liu, Shen, Xia, Zhang, & Park, 2012).
Several researches have been conducted aiming to improve its production in different culture media, both in
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solid or liquid media. There are few researches about solid media cultivation or solid-state fermentation, due to
the difficulty in separating the mycelium from the substrate (Elisashvili, 2012).
Still, cultivation of G. l u c id um mycelium in solid medium is an alternative when all substrate can be used as feed,
such as cereal grains fermentation, from which flour can be made and used in cooking recipes. The use of
agricultural residues is an alternative that have been studied, aiming the incorporation of this product for animal
feeding (Dinis et al., 2009; Graminha et al., 2008; Rodrigues et al., 2008; Shrivastava et al., 2012). The proposal
of new types of food and dietary supplements for antibiotic replacement and antiviral agents for farm animals is
one of the perspectives on medicinal mushroom research (Wasser, 2014).
Some researchers, already observed the ability of this mushroom to grow in soy residues, rice residues, cheese
whey, deproteinated cheese whey, among others agricultural residues (Hsieh & Yang, 2004; Lee, Song, Yu, &
Hwang, 2003a; Lee, Song, & Hwang, 2003b; Yang, Hsieh, & Chen, 2003; Shi, Zhang, & Yang, 2013). The use
of residues in mushroom production represents a valuable conversion of low nutritive phytomass into enriched
food and also an alternative to minimize environmental impact that may be caused by the incorrect discard (Smil,
1999, Van Zanten et al., 2014).
Therefore, growth of G. l u c i d u m , as well as its yield and concentration of β-glucans in soybean hulls, soybean
residue and corn residue were analysed considering their nutritional composition, in order to determine which
would be the most feasible to be used as supplement in animal feeding.
2. Materials and Methods
Ganoderma lucidum CC339ST was obtained from Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation – Genetic
Resources and Biotechnology (EMBRAPA Cenargen). Cultures were inoculated on Potato Dextrose Agar (PDA)
petri dishes and incubated at 28 °C for 7 days, and stored for 3 months at 4 °C until the beginning of the
experiment. Mycelium was activated on PDA with the same procedure and then used for the inoculation in the
residues, immediately after 7 days of incubation. This activation considers that the metabolism of the fungus
probably slows down as a result of the storage at low temperatures, then ‘activation’ is needed for an adequate
metabolic rate, assuring uniform growth.
The agricultural residues were soybean hulls, soy residue and corn residue. “Soybean hulls” is an agricultural
by-product obtained from the production of soybean oil commonly used in animal feeding. Soy residue and corn
residue were obtained during the loading of grains from the trucks to the silos through a rolling mat. During this
process, minor particles such as hulls, broken grains and germens were ‘sieved’ through the mat resulting in a
residue with no commercial value.
Residues were macroscopically analysed for the presence of strange particles (little rocks, insects, etc.), then
washed and sieved in a 250 μm sieve. All of them were processed according to Urben (2004) for “Seed
production” with the following adaptations. The residues were boiled for 2 minutes and then pressed against a
250 μm sieve until no water could be drained. Each residue was packed in polypropylene bags and weighted at
200 g and added with 1% of CaCO
3
(w/w). All bags were closed with cotton plugs and sterilized at 121 °C for 20
minutes. After sterilization, 0.25 cm
2
of mycelial agar were placed asseptically on residues and incubated at
28 °C for the growth measurements.
Mycelial growth was measured using self-designed frame that contained the propylene bag allowing
measurements in four sections of the periphery with a ruler. The measures in the four sections were made at a 3
day interval from day 0 until complete colonization of the substrate that was achieved when no growth could be
measured. After complete colonization, samples were dehydrated in Pasteur oven at 55 °C until constant weight
and freezed at -4 °C until laboratorial analysis (Figure 1).
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Figure 1. Methodology for inoculation of mycelium and incubation for colonization by Ganoderma lucidum
Yield was calculated using the following equation:
Yie l d (%) = (Final weight/Initial weight) × 100 (1)
Nutritional composition (Table 1) was performed with the following analytical process according to the
Association of Official Analytical Chemists [AOAC] (1995), dry matter, ashes, crude protein and fat; for neutral
detergent fiber according to Mertens (2002). After colonization, samples were analysed for (1-3)β,
(1-6)β-glucans according to Lever (1972) using β-glucanase enzyme (Sigma
®
) and reaction with hydrazide.
Table 1. Nutritional composition (means and standard deviation) of agricultural residues used in solid
fermentation with G. l uc id um
Soybean hulls Soybean residue Corn residue
DM (%) 86.81 ± 0.02 86.38 ± 0.35 86.54 ± 0.75
Ash (%) 3.92 ± 0.18 11.92 ± 0.16 0.85 ± 0.02
OM (%) 96.08 ± 0.18 88.08 ± 0.16 99.15 ± 0.08
CP (%) 10.86 ± 0.68 40.36 ± 0.40 11.03 ± 0.52
Fat (%) 0.85 ± 0.01 3.11 ± 0.06 1.38 ± 0.06
NDF (%) 61.02 ± 0.33 22.49 ± 0.17 33.83 ± 1.30
TC 84.37 44.61 86.74
NFC 23.35 22.12 52.91
TC/CP 7.77 1.11 7.86
NFC/TC 0.28 0.50 0.61
NDF/TC 0.72 0.50 0.39
Note. DM: Dry Matter; OM: Organic Matter; CP: Crude Protein; NDF: Neutral Detergent Fiber; TC: Total
Carbohydrates; NFC: Non-Fiber Carbohydrates. TC and NFC were calculated according to Sniffen, O’Connor,
Van Soest, Fox and Russel (1992): TC = 100 – (CP + Fat + Ash); NFC = TC – NDF.
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The trial was performed in a completely randomized design with 3 treatments and 9 replicates. Data of yield and
β-glucans were analysed with Bartlett and Shapiro-Wilk to test the variance homogeneity and the normal
distribution, respectively. Data was transformed by Box Cox method when distribution was not normal with
packages AID and car of RStudio
®
(v. 3.2.1; The R Foundation for Statistical Computing). After checking the
normality and the variance homogeneity the ANOVA test was performed and when the nullity hypothesis (H
0
)
was rejected the treatment means of these variables were compared by Tukey test. All the statistical tests were
computed by using the packages ExpDes.pt and ggplot2 of the RStudio
®
(v. 3.2.1; The R Foundation for
Statistical Computing) considering α = 0.05.
The average of the measures taken at the four sections (cm) was used to estimate mycelial growth. This data was
adjusted using the following equation:
Y = A – B exp(-kt) (2)
This equation represents the monomolecular growth model (Brody, 1945; France, Dijkstra, & Dhanoa, 1996), in
which A is the asymptotic size (cm), k is the first-order specific growth rate (day
-1
) and B is a scale parameter.
The parameter estimation was performed by using the NLMIXED procedure of SAS (v.9.4, SAS Systems, Inc.,
Cary, NC, USA). Attempts were made to correct for heterogeneity of variances over time in nonlinear parameter
estimation (Matis & Hartley, 1971; Bard, 1974) by using three types of special parametric structure on the
variance and covariance matrix (Littell, Milliken, Stroup, Wolfinger, & Schabenberger, 2006): Variance
Component (VC), that specifies standard variance components, Unstructured (UN) that specifies a completely
general unstructured covariance matrix parameterized directly in terms of variances and covariances, and Spatial
Power (SP(POW)) that specifies the spatial power structures, used when the correlation declines in function of
time. This type of methodology has been computationally feasible only in recent years (Pinheiro & Bates, 2000;
Littell et al., 2006; Vonesh, 2012). The choice of the better matrix to represent the variance structure was
accomplished by computing Akaike’s Information Criterion - AIC
cr
(Akaike, 1974; Burnham & Anderson, 2004),
considering that the best structure would be the one that presented the lowest AIC
cr
value.
3. Results and Discussion
Yield (the amount of resulting product after mycelial growth) was below 30% in all residues (Table 2) and the
residue that presented lower yield was soybean hulls (15.01%). Hsieh and Yang (2004) used soy residue from the
waste of tofu manufacturing and Yang et al. (2003) used stillage grain from a rice-spirit distillery and did not
determined yield, because they considered the appearance of fruiting bodies as result. Other researchers that used
solid substrates considered the harvest of fruiting bodies (g) as a ratio of the substrate (kg) to calculate the yield,
such as, Peksen and Yakupoghu (2009) that used tea waste and observed the higher yield of 87.98 g of
mushroom kg of substrate
-1
; and Erkel (2009) that used different types of sawdust and observed 68.44 g of
mushroom kg of substrate
-1
as higher yield.
This work considered the substrate with the mycelium as final product, because of the possibility to include it in
animal feeding. According to Graminha et al. (2008), solid state fermentation represents a potential for animal
feeding in developing countries because it enhances nutritive value of agricultural residues without the need of
high technology. Aiming animal feeding, Rodrigues et al. (2008) evaluated digestibility and Dinis et al. (2009)
evaluated the lignin modification of wheat straw fermented with different white-rot fungi. While Shrivastava et
al. (2012) evaluated wheat straw fermented with Ganoderma sp. rckk02 and observed an enhance in nutritional
value as well as digestibility.
Table 2. Yield (%), (1-3) β, (1-6) β-glucan (mg/g) and protein (mg/g) of agricultural residues for solid state
fermentation with G. l uc id um (means and standard deviation)
Trait Soybean hulls Soybean residue Corn residue
Yield 15.01
c
± 2.76 23.38
b
± 1.69 27.86
a
± 4.78
(1-3)β, (1-6)β-glucan 180.32
a
± 34.33 234.09
a
±49.44 6.53
b
± 1.57
Protein 1.54
b
± 0.46 2.27
ab
± 0.35 2.70ª ± 1.13
Note. Values followed by different letters among residues are significantly different by Tukey test α = 0.05.
Concentration of (1-3)β, (1-6)β-glucan data was not normally distributed and, therefore, was transformed by Box
Cox for analysis with Tukey test, resulting in higher concentration of β-glucans (Table 2) for soybean residue
(234.09 mg g
-1
) and soybean hulls (180.32 mg g
-1
). The use of a solid substrate requires a specific enzime for
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determining (1-3)β, (1-6)β-glucan, because other glucans, such as (1,3)β, (1-4)β-glucan can be found in the cell
wall of plants and in cereal grains (Hall, 2003).
Data for β-glucans, could only be found from experiments that used submerged cultivation, and have been
referred as exopolyssacharides (EPS). In those cases, the liquid culture media was filtered and the remaining
biomass from Ganoderma was added with NaOH or ethanol for EPS precipitation, then the sample could be
analysed by phenol-sulfuric acid method (Wagner et al., 2003). Yuan, Chi, and Zhang (2012) used several
glucose concentrations, sources of potassium and magnesium and different C/N ratios in liquid media for
Ganoderma cultivation in shaking flasks and reached an EPS production of 1 723 mg L
-1
. Wagner et al. (2004)
obtained EPS of 5 700 mg L
-1
using culture media added with glucose at pre-established intervals.
Considering the nutritional composition of the residues, a positive relationship can be observed between the
concentration of (1,3)β, (1,6)β-glucans and the ratio between fibrous carbohydrates and total carbohydrates
(NDF/TC) (Table 1). This positive relationship is possible because basidiomycetes are fungi that degrade cell
wall of plants and G. lucidum is the richest in carbohydrate-active enzymes (CAZymes), with an apparatus of
417 genes related to these enzymes. Its genome codifies enzymes for the three main classes of polyssacharides of
the cell wall of plants: cellulose, hemicellulose and pectin. G. lucidum is also the one that gather the wider and
complete collection of lignolytic peroxydases together with laccases and one cellobiose dehydrogenase (Chen et
al., 2012).
Asymptotic size (parameter A) and specific growth rate (parameter k) were studied through adjustment to the
equation of monomolecular growth model (Brody, 1945; France et al., 1996) and analysed for the best
parametric structure. This study resulted in the UN matrix (AIC
cr
= 510.4) as the best parametric structure for the
variance and covariance heterogeneity, when compared to VC matrix (AIC
cr
= 869.8) and SP(POW) matrix
(AIC
cr
= 589.1). Ganoderma mycelia developed very well in all residues, despite the difference of time for
complete colonization (21 days for corn residue and 39 for others). Growth happened in a descendent way, but in
soybean hulls descendent growth ceased approximately after 30 days, probably due to the humidity of the
substrate, and began an ascendant growth towards the cotton plug of the bag. This behavior can be explained by
the changes in pressure, volume and flux of water that enters and leaves the cell. These changes interfere directly
in cell turgor and in the ability of the hyphae tip for growth Thus, when the humidity of substrate was higher,
hyphae began to grow towards the most favorable environment. This behavior can be depicted through the
results from the equation with similar asymptotic size (Table 3, Figures 2 and 3) for soybean residue (A2 =
12.417) and corn residue (A3 = 12.142), but lower for soybean hulls (A1 = 7.168).
Table 3. Point and interval estimates of the parameters of the Brody model of growth
Parameter Estimate Standard Error
Asymptotic confidence interval
at the probability level of 0.95
Lower Upper
A1 7.168 0.240 6.671 7.665
A2 12.417 0.238 11.926 12.908
A3 12.142 0.240 11.646 12.638
B1 16.257 0.772 14.662 17.853
B2 18.058 0.547 16.927 19.188
B3 23.355 0.754 21.797 24.913
k1 0.165 0.008 0.148 0.182
k2 0.092 0.003 0.086 0.099
k3 0.161 0.005 0.150 0.172
Note. A = Asymptotic size; B = Scale parameter; k = Specific growth rate; 1 = Soybean hulls; 2 = Soybean
residue; 3 = Corn residue.
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Figure 2. Point and confidence interval for parameter A (asymptotic size)
Note. A1 = Soybean hulls; A2 = Soybean residue; A3 = Corn residue.
Figure 3. Linear growth behavior of Ganoderma lucidum as a function of time on the different residues
Note. Growth 1 = Soybean hulls; Growth 2 = Soybean residue; Growth 3 = Corn residue.
Despite the results for asymptotic size, the especific growth rate (Table 3, Figures 3 and 4) of soybean residue
was low (k2 = 0.092), whereas soybean hulls (k1 = 0.165) and corn residue (k3 = 0.161) were similar. These
results mean that soybean residue needed more time than soybean hulls and corn residue to achieve the
asymptotic size. Considering the nutritional composition (Table 1) the residues that presented higher and similar
colonization rate also showed higher and similar total carbohydrates (TC) and total carbohydrates/crude protein
ratio (TC/CP).
Hsieh and Yang (2004) and Yang et al. (2003) measured growth linearly in mm.day
-1
, but a mathematical model
should be used because the fungus presents a biological pattern of growth. Tang and Zhong (2004) used a kinetic
model (Monod model) to describe the cell growth (dry cell weight) of Ganoderma in submerged cultivation and
found an estimated specific growth rate of 0.23.
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Figure 4. Point and confidence interval for parameter k (specific growth rate)
Note. k1 = Soybean hulls; k2 = Soybean residue; k3 = Corn residue.
Carbohydrates are important for the growth of fungi, because the cell wall synthesis depends on glucose supply.
During the cell wall synthesis, glucose is transported by uridine diphospho glucose (UDPGlc) using the GTP
activating enzyme (1-3)β-glucan synthase for (1-3)β-glucan synthesis, an important component of the cell wall
(Bartnicki-Garcia, Bracker, Gierz, López-Franco, & Lu, 2000; Wessels, 1994). Proteins are essential for
synthesis of enzymes, such as those related to substrate degradation and those related to cell growth. All these
enzymes are found in the tip of the hyphae that presents all physical requirements for cell growth: plastic
deformation, incorporation of new wall and membrane material (Lew, 2011). Therefore, TC and TC/CP were
determinative for the colonization rate of the substrate, supplying glucose and specific enzymes for cell growth
of the fungus. However, the excess of CP can impair the specific growth rate as can be observed from the results
of soybean residue.
4. Conclusions
Soybean hulls enriched with G. l uc i d u m mycelium may be feasible to be used as dietary supplement for farming
animals because presented the adequate nutritional composition resulting in high concentration of (1-3)β,
(1-6)β-glucan and high colonization rate when compared to soybean residue and corn residue.
The results of this work demonstrate that the presence of fibrous carbohydrates influences the concentration of
(1-3)β, (1-6)β-glucan, whereas growth is influenced by total carbohydrates and the ratio between total
carbohydrates and proteins. Further researches must consider the fibrous carbohydrates as an important
component of culture medium or substrate for production of (1-3)β, (1-6)β-glucan with Ganoderma lucidum.
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Appendix
Appendix A. R codes used in this paper:
> setwd("~/RSTUDIO")
> data <-read.csv2("~/RSTUDIO/data.csv")
> attach(data)
> require (ExpDes.pt)
> require (ggplot2)
> require (AID)
> require (car)
> bartlett.test(variable~treatment, data)
> m=lm(variable~factor(treat), data)
> shapiro.test(resid(m))
> boxcoxnc (data, method = “sw”, lam = seq (-3,3,0.01), plotit = TRUE, alpha verbose = TRUE)
> dic(treat,variable,quali=TRUE,mcomp="tukey",sigT = 0.05,sigF = 0.05)
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