Table 1.

Effect of different carbon sources on the activity of α-galactosidase secreted on the seventh day by different fungal strains.

Culture media (50 mL)	α-galactosidase activity (U/mL) secreted by different fungal strains
Carbon sources (1%, w/v)	AL-3	WF-3	WP-4	CL-4
Guar gum (GG)	190.3 ± 8.09	174.5 ± 7.75	93.9 ± 5.53	28.8 ± 2.34
Wheat straw (WS)	41.5 ± 4.75	30.83 ± 3.32	59.1 ± 3.12	6.2 ± 0.37
Soya casein (SC)	63.5 ± 3.87	14.5 ± 0.76	37.4 ± 2.98	4.2 ± 0.21

The different fungal strains were inoculated into standardised culture medium containing different substrates, and the activity of α-galactosidase secreted into the culture filtrate was measured at the seventh day as described in Section 2. The results are presented as the mean value ± SD of three independent experiments.