Isolation of pigment producing bacteria from Sundarban Forest soil : Pigment producing bacterial count, isolation and identification from SMF soil

ISBN-13: 9783659611278 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 124 str.

Sadia Afrin; Mihir Lal Saha

Opis

Sundarban Mangrove Forest (SMF) is a tidal forest in Bangladesh which is one of the leading tourist spots and ecologically unique ecosystem for natural resource. During this study, collected SMF soils were examined for pigment producing bacteria and their biotechnological aspect for edible pigment production. Thirty pigment producing bacteria were randomly selected for details study and result showed that most of bacterial isolates were the members of the genus Bacillus. The genus Bacillus included 14 distinct species e.g. B. subtilis (8), B. firmus (4), B. pumilus (3), B. licheniformis (2), B. pantothenicus (2), B. lentus (2), B. acidocaldarius (1), B. schlegelii (1), B. azotoformans (1), B. polymixa (1), B. stearophilus (1), B. alcalophilus (1), B. fastidiosus (1), B. lentimorbus (1). Only one isolate was coccus and was identified as Planococcus halophilus. Different types of pigment producing bacteria were observed. Among them yellow, orange, cream, brown color pigments were found to be produce by the isolated bacteria. These pigment producing bacteria could be utilized in biotechnology for natural pigment of interest.

O autorze

Sadia Afrin has completed B.Sc.(Hons.) and M.Sc. degree in Botany from University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. She was offered a research project on "Isolation of pigment producing bacteria from Sundarban Forest soil" and was guided by Prof. Dr. Mihir Lal Saha. She is a PhD fellow at Central South University, Changsha, China.