ABSTRACT: Ganoderma lucidum is a widely used medicinal mushroom in traditional Chinese medicine that creates a diverse set of bioactive compounds. Highland barley, a typical nutritionbalanced crop, is not convenient for direct consumption but its nutritional characteristics meet the modern healthcare requirements of health food. In the present study, barley grains were used as substrates on solid state fermentation (SSF) of G. lucidum. Statistical optimization of media composition was employed for enhancing the production of polysaccharides. Peptone, medlar, and KH2PO4 were identified as the most important components for producing polysacharide. Based on the one-factor-at-a-time experimentation, a quadratic regression model with the polysaccharides content as the response value was established by central composite design (CCD). The results showed that the predicted variables were 2.38% peptone, 1.14% medlar and 0.25% KH2PO4 for the maximum yield of predicted polysaccharides of 11.64% in the fermented substrate. The experimental polysaccharides that obtained using the predicted optimum media composition was 11.61% of the fermented substrate, which validates the high degree of accuracy of optimization for enhanced production of polysaccharides by SSF. This study suggested that in the process of barley grains fermentation by G. lucidum for polysaccharides production, the optimized SSF substrate consist of 71.4% barley grains, 2.38% peptone, 1.14% medlar, 0.25% KH2PO4, 2.5% glucose, 0.25% MgSO4ยท7H2O and 1% CaCO3. According to this study, the strain G. lucidum 00679 showed a good fermentation property by optimizing the media. It might be a candidate industrial strain for further process optimization and scale-up study.
Liu, Y., Jin, M.-Y., Mao, P.-W., Cong, W., Yuan, W.-N., & Zhou, X.-W. (2020). Statistical Optimization of Polysaccharides Production by the Lingzhi or Reishi Medicinal Mushroom Ganoderma lucidum (Agaricomycetes) in Solid-State Fermentation Using Highland Barley Grains. IntJMedMushrooms.