Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras have identified a bacterium that can convert agricultural waste into industrial enzymes.
Bacillus sp PM 06 that researchers Sathyanarayana N. Gummadi, faculty in Biotechnology Department, and Rekha Rajesh, a research scholar, isolated could hydrolyse very low-cost waste without pretreatment.
There is an interest world over to use agricultural waste to produce industrial enzymes and second-generation ethanol as an alternative fuel source.
