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Isolation and biochemical characterization of biosurfactant from soil sample
Abareethan, M., Venkatesh, R., Leelavathi, P and Suganya, A.
Year : 2016 | Volume: 2 | Issue: 3 | Pages: 137-144
Received on: 05/03/2017
Revised on: 05/29/2017
Accepted on: 05/30/2017
Published on: 06/26/2017
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Abareethan, M., Venkatesh, R., Leelavathi, P and Suganya, A.( 2016).
Isolation and biochemical characterization of biosurfactant from soil sample
. International Journal of Zoology and Applied Biosciences, 2( 3), 137-144.
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Abstract
The present study aimed to isolate and characterize bio surfactants bacteria. Biosurfactants are surface active compound like chemical surfactants but synthesized by microbes like bacteria, fungi and yeast. Biosurfactants comprise the properties of dropping surface tension, stabilizing emulsions, promoting foaming and are usually non-toxic and biodegradable. Bio surfactant showed diversity, flexibility in operation, and more ecofriendly than chemical surfactant. Bio surfactants are thermotolerant, halo bacteria and oil degrading in nature, which help in various industrial applications in near future. Biosurfactants are produced by a variety of microorganisms mainly bacteria, fungi and yeasts are diverse in chemical composition and their nature and the amount depend on the type of microbes producing a particular biosurfactant. And in resulting wide variety of biosurfactant can be produced accordingly to the demand and uses. The advantage of biosurfactants reported by several scientists from worldwide and compared their efficiency with chemically synthesized pesticides and drugs aimed to screen effective bio surfactant producing bacteria. Biochemical characterization of biosurfactant contributes for the social benefits. Biosurfactants are biodegradability, generally low toxicity biocompatibility and digestibility which allow their application in cosmetics, pharmaceuticals and as functional food additives. Other applications include detergents, health care, pulp and paper, coal, textiles, ceramic processing and food industries excluding herbicides and pesticides formulations. This project is eco-friendly and is used in cleaning the environment with the help of these microbes
Keywords
Agar well diffusion, Bacillus, Biosurfactants, Isolation.
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