Sustaining ethanol production from lime pretreated water hyacinth biomass using mono and co-cultures of isolated fungal strains with Pichia stipitis

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Table 4 Ethanol production in mono and co-culture fermentation process (SSF) using pretreated WHB at 60 h

Culture (s)	E_c	E_p	E_y	E_sy	Microbial biomass (g DCW L⁻¹)
T. reesei	19.3^c ± 0.12	0.32^c ± 0.09	0.196^c ± 0.11	0.377^c ± 0.11	2.14^c ± 0.01
F. oxysporum	17.8^d ± 0.13	0.29^d ± 0.17	0.176^d ± 0.08	0.348^d ± 0.08	2.06^c ± 0.08
T. reesei + P. stipitis	40.8^a ± 0.09	0.68^a ± 0.14	0.411^a ± 0.03	0.798^a ± 0.11	3.12^a ± 0.12
F. oxysporum + P. stipitis	36.8^b ± 0.06	0.61^b ± 0.12	0.371^b ± 0.07	0.720^b ± 0.08	2.64^b ± 0.20

E_c, ethanol concentration (g L⁻¹); E_p, ethanol productivity (g L⁻¹ h⁻¹); E_y, ethanol yield (g g⁻¹ WHB); E_sy, specific ethanol yield (g g⁻¹ sugar). Values are the mean of three replicates ± SE. Mean followed by the same letter within treatment do not differ significantly (p = 0.05).