Re-Use of Vegetable Wastes as Cheap Substrates for Extremophile Biomass Production

• DOI: 10.1007/s12649-011-9062-x
• Publication Date: 2011-01-27T05:22:21Z
• Authors: Paola Di Donato; Gabriella Fiorentino; Gianluca Anzelmo; Giuseppina Tommonaro; Barbara Nicolaus; Annarita Poli
• Keywords: Extremophile

Purpose Wastes generated from industrial processing of tomato, lemon, carrot and fennel were used as sole carbon sources to support cheap microbial biomass production of thermophilic and halophilic microbial strains. The production of enzymes and biopolymers was also investigated.