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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Main Authors: Jayapradha Ramakrishnan, Hariram Balakrishnan, Selvaraj Thirupathi Kumara Raja, Natarajan Sundararamakrishnan, Sadagoban Renganathan, Venkatesh Nagarajan Radha
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Microbiologia 2011-09-01
Series:Brazilian Journal of Microbiology
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1517-83822011000300001

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