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Recovering low molecular weight extractives from degraded straw by oyster mushroom at the farm scale for high value use

This paper examined the feasibility of recovering high value sugars and phenol compounds from the water phase of novel biological breakdown of agricultural waste before subsequent solvent extraction. The base conditions and key process parameters were established for on-farm processing to be successful, with a number of commercial compounds (e.g. coumaryl alcohol and vanillic acid) identified within the extractives. Other extractives can be used on-site for biogas production. The newly funded £3.1M EPSRC project (CL4W, EP/K026216/1)) will utilise approaches developed within this paper to semi-industrially recover high value chemical compounds from lignocellulose structures of the phytoremediation plants that it employs.