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Biodegradation of Feather by Microsporum fulvum Singly or in Combination with Other Fungi
| Ajay Kumar1*, Charu Singh1 and Pragati Saini2 | |
| 1Department of Microbiology, School of Life Sciences, ITM University, India | |
| 2Department of Microbiology, Kamla Raje Government PG College, India | |
| Corresponding Author : | Ajay Kumar Department of Microbiology School of Life Sciences ITM University, India Tel: 0751 243 2988 E-mail: kumarajayitm@gmail.com |
| Received August 13, 2014; Accepted November 25, 2014; Published November 28, 2014 | |
| Citation: Kumar A, Singh C, Saini P (2014) Biodegradation of Feather by Microsporum fulvum Singly or in Combination with Other Fungi. J Bioremed Biodeg 5:265. doi:10.4172/2155-6199.1000265 | |
| Copyright: © 2014 Kumar A, et al. This is an open-a ccess article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. | |
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Abstract
The course of feather degradation by Microsporum fulvum singly and in combination with Chrysosporium tropicum, C. vallenarense, C. quenslandicum and Microsporum boullardii was studied by measuring protein, amino acids, keratinase enzyme released in the culture medium and weight loss of feather by M. fulvum and the effect of addition of M. fulvum on continued degradation of feather by C. tropicum, C. vallenarense, C. quenslandicum and M. boullardii were also studied. The synergistic action of M. fulvum and C. tropicum on feather degradation was found to be more effective. The biodegradation ability of M. fulvum can be effective by C. tropicum and C. vallenarense if the latter fungi join midway of keratinolysis. M. fulvum was also effective on the biodegradation ability of C. tropicum. M. fulvum did not act as follower fungus in wool degradation.
