Utilization of bamboo as biorefinery feedstock: co-production of xylo-oligosaccharide with succinic acid and lactic acid.

Herein, we investigated the possibility of co-producing xylo-oligosaccharides (XOSs) from bamboo, as value-added products, along with succinic and lactic acids, as platform chemicals. Xylan was extracted from bamboo using the alkali method under mild conditions. From xylan, XOSs were produced by partial enzymatic hydrolysis at a conversion rate of 83.9%, and all reaction conditions resulted in similar degrees of polymerization. Hydrogen peroxide-acetic acid (HPAC) pretreatment effectively removed lignin from NaOH-treated bamboo, and the enzymatic hydrolytic yield of NaOH and HPAC-treated bamboo was 84.3% of the theoretical yield. The production of succinic and lactic acids from the hydrolysate resulted in conversion rates of approximately 63.2% and 91.3% of the theoretical yield using Corynebacterium glutamicum Δldh and Actinobacillus succinogenes, respectively, under facultative anaerobic conditions. This study demonstrates that bamboo has a high potential to produce value-added products using a biorefinery process and is an alternative resource for compounds typically derived from petroleum.