PRODUCTION OF SINGLE-CELL PROTEIN FROM DARJEELING MANDARIN PEELS USING ASPERGILLUS NIGER AND ASPERGILLUS ORYZAE
AbstractSingle Cell Protein (SCP) refers to the dead, dried cells of various microbes, including bacteria, yeast, algae, and fungi. This type of biomass can be obtained from economically cheap substrates like agro-wastes as a non-conventional proteintious source for human or animal feed. The bioconversion of Darjeeling mandarin peels into single-cell protein (SCP) was performed using Aspergillus niger and Aspergillus oryzae, by submerged fermentation. The study revealed that supplementing Darjeeling mandarin peels with inorganic nitrogen and glucose as carbon sources improved the fungal biomass and single-cell protein production. Aspergillus niger showed the highest biomass and protein yield of 2.53±0.005gm/l and 1.25 gm/l or 43.57±0.00%, respectively. The present study revealed that fungal biomasses had shown crude fat (ranging from to1.16gm/l), crude fiber (ranging from 0.06±0.001to1.97 gm/l), and total genomic DNA content (from 1.85±0.001-2.20±0.001%). Maximum ash content was observed by A. niger biomass in GMPM (3.89%). A. niger converted sugar 71.4% to yield biomass. A. niger and A. oryzae were useful for producing fungal biomass from Darjeeling mandarin peels.
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IJPSR
Debarati Roy and Jayati Bhowal *
School of Community Science and Technology, Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, Howrah, Bengal, India.
jayatibhowal@gmail.com
08 June 2021
08 September 2022
08 September 2022
10.13040/IJPSR.0975-8232.13(11).4696-03
01 November 2022
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