National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692 Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
Aureobasidium pullulans, popularly known as black yeast, is one of the most widespread saprophytic fungi associated with wide range of terrestrial and aquatic habitats. The fungus has widely been employed in production of an economically important polysaccharide Pullulan. Pullulan is a linear glucan made mainly of maltotriose repeating units. This gives the polysaccharide structural flexibility and enhances solubility. This polysaccharide is of great economic importance with increase applications in food, pharmaceutical, agriculture, blood plasma substitute and chemical industry. Production of pullulan was observed in a novel media consisting of Sugar Cane Molasses (SCM) and distilled water. It was found that high amount of pullulan (2.5g /100ml) was obtained at 30°C, pH 5 at a concentration of 2.5% media in 96h. No synthetic minerals were used in the media for the growth of polysaccharide making it very economical.
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