Abstract

PRODUCTION OF FUNGAL CELLULASE FROM AGRICULTURE SOIL ISOLATES USING CMC AS SUBSTRATE UNDER SUBMERGE FERMENTATION TECHNOLOGY

P.K. Chouhan*

ABSTRACT

Cellulase is an enzyme has great industrial importance. It is used as cellulose hydrolyzing enzyme and produces small sugar components i.e. glucose, cellobiose and other oligomers. In the present study we tried to isolate the fungal organism, Rhizopus and Aspergillus, from agriculture soil since the fungi have been always the best effective microorganism source for cellulose production. The enzyme production was increased with incubation time during submerge fermentation process by both fungal isolates using caboxy methyl cellulose as substrate whereas more enzyme activity was shows by Aspergillus spp than Rhizopus spp.

Keywords: Cellulase, Aspergillus, Rhizopus, Submerge Fermentation Technology and Incubation time.