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Utilization of Agro-waste in Pectinase Production and Its Industrial Applications

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A vast majority of microbial diversity found in nature offers a tremendous scope in the industry. Enzyme, fungal, and bacterial metabolite production is generally done by solid state fermentation. In pectinase production, low-cost agro-wastes are commonly used as substrates that provide a rich source of required minerals and nutrients to living systems. Different agro-waste substrates, apple pomace, citrus peel, tomato peels, papaya peels, cucumber peels, and rice husk, under solid state fermentation are used. The present study relates to an improved process of producing sediment-free, haze-free, and turbidity-free clarified juices, and the main usage of invention will be in the quick enzymatic processing of fruit pulp to a completely clarified juice, which is free from any sedimentation. And other applications such as use of alkaline pectinase in bleaching process in the paper industry will also be the focus of the present study. More emphasis is laid on the utilization of the different agricultural wastes present in India for the production of pectinase for industrial applications and also on the screening and production of strains which are high yielding. Employment of agro-waste and industrial fruit processed byproducts as the substrate, decreases the production cost and recycle the waste by making process cost-effective.

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Thakur, P., Mukherjee, G. (2021). Utilization of Agro-waste in Pectinase Production and Its Industrial Applications. In: Prasad, R., Kumar, V., Singh, J., Upadhyaya, C.P. (eds) Recent Developments in Microbial Technologies. Environmental and Microbial Biotechnology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4439-2_7

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