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. 2012 Oct 3;51(12):3527–3545. doi: 10.1007/s13197-012-0861-2

Table 4.

Utilization of banana/plantain by-products as substrates for the production of non-food cellulose, cellulolytic enzymes, and organic acids

Products Banana by-products used as substrate Microorganism and macroorganism used References
Non-food cellulose Pseudostem Mix cultures from banana plantation soil Zainol and Abdul Rahman (2008)
Cellulolytic enzymes
Crude Cellulases Pseudostem Phanerochaete chrysosporium, Pleurotus ostreatus Mena-Espino et al. (2011)
Exoglucanase Floral stalk Bacillus subtilis Shafique et al. (2004)
a-amylase Banana peels Helminthosporium oxysporium, Aspergillus niger, Aspergillus fumigatus, Aspergillus flavus, and Penicillium frequestans. Adeniran and Abiose (2009)
Floral stalk Aspergillus oryzae Ragunathan and Swaminathan (2005)
Mix enzymes (Not specified) Leaves and pseudostem Trichoderma lignorum Baig (2005)
Not specified Banana floral stalk Neurospora sitophila Asad et al. (2006)
Laccase Banana peels Trametes pubescens Osma et al. (2007)
laccase, lignin peroxidase, xylanase, endo-1,4-_-d-glucanase and exo-1,4-_-nglucanase Leaves and pseudostem Phylosticta spp. MPS-001 Aspergillus spp. MPS-002 Shah et al. (2005)
Levansucrase Not specified Bacillus megaterium Ahmed (2008)
Polygalacturonase Leaf parts Streptomyces lindicus Jacob and Prema (2008)
Xylanase Banana peels Trichoderma harzianum 1073 Seyis and Aksoz (2005)
Organic Acid
Citric Acid Banana peels Aspergillus niger Vidhya and Neethu (2009)