Jaggery: a novel substrate for pullulan production by Aureobasidium pullulans CFR-77

Vijayendra, S. V. N. and Bansal, Devendra and Prasad, M. S. and Nand, Krishna (2001) Jaggery: a novel substrate for pullulan production by Aureobasidium pullulans CFR-77. Process Biochemistry, 37. pp. 359-364.

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Abstract

A locally isolated fungal strain Aureobasidium pullulans CFR-77 was used for the production of pullulan in batch fermentation employing jaggery (a traditional concentrated sugar cane juice) as a carbon source. The maximum yield of pullulan (51.9 g l−1) was obtained with 5% jaggery in the fermentation broth in 72 h. Jaggery supported good growth of A. pullulans and the pullulan produced was pigment free and highly viscous (160.5 cp) as compared with that of sucrose (32.0 cp). The fermentation period was reduced when jaggery was used as a carbon source as compared with sucrose. It favoured the formation of yeast like cells along with chlamydospores. The GC analysis of pullulan produced from jaggery and sucrose showed the presence of glucose as major sugar. From these results it can be concluded that Jaggery is a promising carbon source for the economical production of pullulan.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Fermentation; Jaggery; Microbial exopolysaccharide; Pullulan; Cell biomass; Viscosity
Subjects:	600 Technology > 05 Chemical engineering > 04 Fermentation Technology 500 Natural Sciences and Mathematics > 07 Life Sciences > 04 Microbiology > 04 Fungi
Divisions:	Food Microbiology
Depositing User:	Food Sci. & Technol. Information Services
Date Deposited:	03 Oct 2007 11:40
Last Modified:	27 Aug 2018 04:23
URI:	http://ir.cftri.res.in/id/eprint/1468

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