Isolation and Characterization of Vegetable Oil Degrading Bacteria

ISSN: 0973-7510

E-ISSN: 2581-690X

P. Prajakta Kamble , A. Avinash Raut and M.B. Gandhi

PG Department of Microbiology, Yashwantrao Chavan College of Science, Vidyanagar, Karad – 415 124, India.

J Pure Appl Microbiol. 2011;5(2):887-890

Received: 22/11/2010 | Accepted: 15/01/2011| Published: 31/10/2011

Abstract

For the present study the suitable vegetable oil contaminated samples were collected from Kolhapur and Karad cities, in India. Four quadrant streak plate technique was used for the isolation and characterization of efficient vegetable oil degrading strains that had ability to grow on 1% vegetable oil concentration on Bushnell and Hass agar plates. These isolated strains namely KopB₁ and KRDB₁were identified by morphological and biological tests and were found to belong to Genus: Staphylococcus and Bacillus. They were also able to grow up to 7 and 8% vegetable oil concentration respectively.

Keywords

Oil contamination, Edible oil, Microorganisms

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