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| Title: | Sericulture pupal waste — A new production medium for mass cultivation of Bacillus thuringiensis |
| Authors: | Karthikeyan, A
Sivakumar, N |
| Keywords: | Bacillus thuringiensis
Bombyx mori
silkworm
sericulture pupal waste
production medium |
| Issue Date: | Oct-2007 |
| Publisher: | CSIR |
| IPC Code: | Int. Cl.⁸ C12N1/16 |
| Abstract: | An attempt has been made to utilize the silkworm pupal waste for mass cultivation of biopesticide bacterium, Bacillus thuringiensis. The mass production potential was tested in a semi solid state fermentation set-up and the dry pupal waste powder was analyzed for carbon, lipid, protein and pH before and after solid state fermentation, where viable spore count (VSC) was taken as a criteria for evaluating the efficiency of pupal waste medium. A very high VSC of 369x10⁹ was obtained in the present investigation. |
| Page(s): | 557-559 |
| ISSN: | 0972-5849 |
| Source: | IJBT Vol.06(4) [October 2007]
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