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ArticleApplied biochemistry and biotechnology2024

Solid-State Fermentation Improves Tobacco Leaves Quality via the Screened Bacillus subtilis of Simultaneously Degrading Starch and Protein Ability.

Lingling Ma, Ying Wang, Xin Wang, Xin Lü

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Article in Applied biochemistry and biotechnology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

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25 citing papers in PubMed, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Lingling Ma *Laboratory of Bioresources, College of Food Science and Engineering, Northwest A&F University, Shaanxi Province, 712100, Yangling, China.
Ying Wang *Laboratory of Bioresources, College of Food Science and Engineering, Northwest A&F University, Shaanxi Province, 712100, Yangling, China.
Xin WangLaboratory of Bioresources, College of Food Science and Engineering, Northwest A&F University, Shaanxi Province, 712100, Yangling, China.
Xin LüLaboratory of Bioresources, College of Food Science and Engineering, Northwest A&F University, Shaanxi Province, 712100, Yangling, China. xinlu@nwsuaf.edu.cn.
China Tobacco · CNNorthwest A&F University · CNState Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology · CN

Funding

Key project of Shaanxi China Tobacco Industry Co. LTD No. 047
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The process of tobacco aging plays a significant role in enhancing the smoking experience by improving the flavor and quality of tobacco leaves. During natural aging, the metabolic activity of the microbes on the surface of tobacco leaves will be greatly changed. Besides, starch and protein are two of the main macromolecular compounds causing the poor smoking quality of tobacco leaves which to be degraded for better tobacco quality. In this study, a bacterium with the simultaneously degrading ability of starch (degradation rate of 33.87%) and protein (degradation rate of 20%) has been screened out from high-class tobacco leaf and then inoculated into low-class tobacco leaf by solid-state fermentation for quality improvement. The changes in components related to carbon and nitrogen showed that the strain had an obvious effect on the quality improvement of tobacco leaves. After that, GC-MS analyses displayed the volatile flavor compounds which become rich and the flavor has been improved. It has been proved that inoculation solid-state fermentation by dominant strain could improve tobacco quality, as well as instead of the traditional natural aging process which greatly shortens the aging process. The work also offers a helpful strategy for solid-state products for deep fermentation.

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Bacillus subtilisStarchFermentationPlant LeavesTobacco ProductsStarchBacillus subtilisProtein degradationSolid-state fermentation (SSF)Starch degradationTobacco leaves

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PMID37148443
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