About BYPROVALUE

• Background

  Norway produces around 600 000 tons of agriculture and food supply chain by-products annually. Today, the large share of these by-products is used for low-value applications, combustion or disposed as waste. There is a huge societal and industrial need for developing processes for valorizing available agriculture by-products in a sustainable way for producing high-value product(s).

• Aims

  BYPROVALUE will utilize the versatile metabolism of oleaginous fungi and develop a completely new and unique value chain for valorizing Norwegian agricultural supply chain by-products - animal fat and protein by-products, rest materials from brewery and sugar-rich lignocellulose side-streams of forestry into a product with several functionalities: a multifunctional fungal biomass. Multifunctional fungal biomass could be utilised as a whole in animal feed and pet food, or fractionated down to high-value ingredients - lipids and pigments for feed and food, chitin/chitosan for water treatment applications and beta-glucans for medical applications.

• Publications

  Dzurendova S., Losada C.B., Dupuy-Galet B.X., Fjær K., Shapaval V.
  Mucoromycota fungi as powerful cell factories for modern biorefinery
  Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology (2021)

  Gaykawad S.S., Ramanand S.S., Blomqvist J., Zimmermann B., Shapaval V., Kohler A., Oostindjer M., Boccadoro C.
  Submerged Fermentation of Animal Fat By-Products by Oleaginous Filamentous Fungi for the Production of Unsaturated Single Cell Oil
  Fermentation 7 (2021) 300

  Dzurendova S., Shapaval V., Tafintseva V., Kohler A., Byrtusová D., Szotkowski M., Márová I., Zimmermann B.
  Assessment of Biotechnologically Important Filamentous Fungal Biomass by Fourier Transform Raman Spectroscopy
  International Journal of Molecular Sciences 22 (2021) 6710

  Tafintseva V., Shapaval V., Blazhko U., Kohler A.
  Correcting replicate variation in spectroscopic data by machine learning and model-based pre-processing
  Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems 215 (2021) 104350

  Byrtusová D., Szotkowski M., Kurowska K., Shapaval V., Márová I.
  Rhodotorula kratochvilovae CCY 20-2-26—The Source of Multifunctional Metabolites
  Microorganisms 9 (2021) 1280

  Dzurendova S., Zimmermann B., Kohler A., Reitzel K., Nielsen U.G., Dupuy--Galet B.X., Leivers S., Horn S.J., Shapaval V.
  Calcium affects polyphosphate and lipid accumulation in Mucoromycota fungi
  Journal of Fungi 7 (2021) 300

  Slaný O. , Klempová T., Shapaval V., Zimmermann B., Kohler A., Čertík M.
  Animal Fat as a Substrate for Production of n-6 Fatty Acids by Fungal Solid-State Fermentation
  Microorganisms 9 (2021) 170

  Slaný O., Klempová T., Shapaval V., Zimmermann B., Kohler A., Čertík M.
  Biotransformation of Animal Fat-By Products into ARA-Enriched Fermented Bioproducts by Solid-State Fermentation of Mortierella alpina 
  Journal of Fungi 6 (2020) 236

  Dzurendova S., Zimmermann B., Tafintseva V., Kohler A., Horn S.J., Shapaval V.
  Metal and Phosphate Ions Show Remarkable Influence on the Biomass Production and Lipid Accumulation in Oleaginous Mucor circinelloides
  Journal of Fungi 6 (2020) 260

• Project partners

  Slovak University of Technology (Slovakia)
  Brno University of Technology (Czech Republic)
  University of Munster (Germany)
  Nofima (Norway)
  Norilia AS (Norway)
  Nortura SA (Norway)
  Felleskjøpet Forutvikling BIL (Norway)
  Biotec Betaglucans AS (Norway)
  Ringnes AS (Norway)
  Teta vannrensing (Norway)
  Borregaard ASA (Norway)

• Participants at NMBU