BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The essential amino acid L-tryptophan can be produced by a condensation reaction between indole and L-serine, catalyzed by B. subtilis with tryptophan synthase activity. Application of the tryptophan is widespread in the biotechnology domain and is sometimes added to feed products as a food fortifier. MATERIALS AND METHODS The optimum concentration of the Iranian can...

The present study is concerned with the production of cephalosporin C by Cephalosporium acremonium C-10. Two culture media were tested for the production of antibiotic. Among these culture media M1 containing sucrose, ammonium acetate, cornstarch, sugar cane molasses, soybean meal, calcium carbonate, calcium sulphate and methyl oleate gave optimum production of cephalosporin C. The cultural con...

Sugar cane molasses has proved cohesive and excellent performance on soil aggregates (fine particles). However, the microstructure of consolidated by is not yet subjected to research. The analysis results sample without (0%) samples at 8%, 12%, 16% show that acts structure clayey fine developing its airy matrix type (sample a qualified type, more solid. Consolidated molasses). We also observe p...

During the mid 1990s a potentially serious, chronic syndrome was reported in well-managed beef and dairy herds from unrelated parts of South Africa. Farmers reported that it manifested as various combinations of decreased production, decreased weaning masses, apparent immune breakdown in previously immunocompetent animals, increased reproductive disorders, various mineral imbalances in non-defi...

Bio-ethanol production from cane molasses (diluted to 15 % sugar w/v) was studied using the bacterium, Zymomonas mobilis MTCC 92 entrapped in luffa (Luffa cylindrica L.) sponge discs and Ca-alginate gel beads as the immobilizing matrices. At the end of 96 h fermentation, the final ethanol concentrations were 58.7 ± 0.09 and 59.1 ± 0.08 g/l molasses with luffa and Ca-alginate entrapped Z. mobili...

in order to reduce the costs associated with poly-β-hydroxybutyrate production, growth and poly-β-hydroxybutyrate production of ralstonia eutropha were studied in batch culture on different carbon sources. experiments were designed and conducted to not only lower the cost of poly-β-hydroxybutyrate production by using inexpensive substrates, but also to increase poly-β-hydroxybutyrate production...

OF PAPERS TWENTY-SECOND ANNUAL SUMMARY OF CHEMICAL LABORATORY REPORTS South African Sugar Factories, Season 1946-47~ By H. H. DODDS and J. L. DU Torr. For the third successive year rainfall, 32.02 inches, and humidity have been very low, though the rainfall was not quite so unfavourably distributed as in the two preceding years. The mean annual temperature, 69.4°F., was considerably above the a...

Sugar-cane stalks, 2.0 cm long, were used as a support for yeast immobilization envisaging ethanol production. The assays were conducted in 38.5 L fermenters containing a bed of stalks with 50% porosity. The operational stability of the immobilized yeast, the efficiency and stability of the process, as well as the best dilution rate were evaluated. Molasses from demerara sugar production was us...

BACKGROUND Biodegradable polyesters are candidates for the development of environmental friendly plastics. Poly-β-hydroxybutyrate (PHB) is a type of polyester from the hydroxyalkanoates family, synthesized by bacteria as an intracellular material and accumulated as granules in the cytoplasm. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to isolate Poly β-hydroxybutyrate over producing bacteria and opt...