Formulation of economical microbial feed using degraded chicken feathers by a novel Streptomyces sp: mitigation of environmental pollution
A new Streptomyces sp. IF 5 was isolated from the feather dumped soil and found to have a tremendous keratinase activity. The strain enabled the degradation of the chicken feathers very effectively in 60 h. The 16S rRNA sequence of 1474 bp long was submitted to the National centre for Biotechnologic...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Sociedade Brasileira de Microbiologia
2011-09-01
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Series: | Brazilian Journal of Microbiology |
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Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1517-83822011000300001 |