Electroplating and metalworking industries discharge large amounts of heavy metals, including copper (Cu), nickel (Ni) and zinc (Zn) ions, in their effluents have been recognized as a major problem to human health and aquatic life. Copper is highly toxic because it is non biodegradable and carcinogenic, Copper has been reported to cause neurotoxicity commonly known as “Wilson’s disease” due to ...

A fungal strain, Aspergillus terreus strain GA2, isolated from an agricultural field cultivating sweet sorghum, produced feruloyl esterase using maize bran. In order to obtain maximum yields of feruloyl esterase, the solid state fermentation (SSF) conditions for enzyme production were standardized. Effective feruloyl esterase production was observed with maize bran as substrate followed by whea...

The present investigation was done on impact of different hardening substrates growth in vitro raised plantlets with objective to standardize media for acclimatization orchid plantlets. research laid out Completely Randomized Design (CRD) combination 16 treatments containing charcoal, brick, cocopeat, bark, rice husk, groundnut shell, chopped coconut husk and paddy straw all replicated thrice a...