Journal of Petroleum & Environmental Biotechnology

Craig A Taatjes

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• Research Article
  An Endophytic Nodulisporium sp. Producing Volatile Organic Compounds Having Bioactivity and Fuel Potential
  Author(s): Morgan Tess Mends, Eizadora Yu, Gary A Strobel, Syed Riyaz-Ul- Hassan, Eric Booth, Brad Geary, Joe Sears, Craig A Taatjes and Masood Z HadiMorgan Tess Mends, Eizadora Yu, Gary A Strobel, Syed Riyaz-Ul- Hassan, Eric Booth, Brad Geary, Joe Sears, Craig A Taatjes and Masood Z Hadi
  
  Nodulisporium sp. has been isolated as an endophyte of Myroxylon balsamum found in the upper Napo region of the Ecuadorian Amazon. This organism produces volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that have both fuel and biological potential. Under microaerophilic growth environments, the organism produces 1, 4-cyclohexadiene, 1-methyl- , 1-4 pentadiene and cyclohexene, 1-methyl-4-(1-methylethenyl)- along with some alcohols and terpenoids of interest as potential fuels. The fungus was scaled up in an aerated large fermentation flask, and the VOCs trapped by Carbotrap technology and analyzed by headspace solid –phase microextraction (SPME) fiber-GC/MS. Under these conditions, Nodulisporium sp. produces a series of alkyl alcohols starting with 1-butanol-3-methyl, 1- propanol-2-methyl, 1- pentanol, 1-hexanol, 1-heptanol, 1- octanol, 1-nonanol along with phenylethyl alcohol. The org.. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2157-7463.1000117

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