Rice bran as a substrate for proteolytic enzyme production

Rice bran was used as the substrate for screening nine strains of Rhizopus sp. for neutral protease production by solid-state fermentation. The best producer, Rhizopus microsporus NRRL 3671, was used for optimizing the process parameters for enzyme production. Fermentation carried out with 44.44 % i...

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Main Authors: Alagarsamy Sumantha, Paul Deepa, Chandran Sandhya, George Szakacs, Carlos Ricardo Soccol, Ashok Pandey
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto de Tecnologia do Paraná (Tecpar) 2006-09-01
Series:Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-89132006000600019