Fifty grams (dry mass) of chopped corn stalk (40–50 mm long) obtained from Henan Tianguan Group Co., Ltd., in China was place in a 500-ml Erlenmeyer flask, moistened with 100 ml of distilled water, and inoculated with 10 ml of homogenized T. hirsute culture. The culture was incubated at 28 °C for 28 days.