Optimization of β-Fructofuranosidase Production from Agrowaste by and Its Application in the Production of Inverted Sugar.

Research Background: Microbial β-fructofuranosidases are widely employed in food industry to produce inverted sugar or fructooligosaccharides. In this study, a newly isolated PC-4 strain was used to optimize the β-fructofuranosidase production in a cost-effective process and the sucrose hydrolysis was evaluated to produce inverted sugars.

Experimental Approach: Optimization of nutritional components of culture medium was carried out using simplex lattice mixture design for 72 and 120 h at 28 °C.

Polyhydroxyalkanoate Synthesis by into a Sustainable Sugarcane Biorefinery Concept.

Polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) bioplastic was synthesized by MA13 from carbon sources and industrial byproducts related to sugarcane biorefineries: sucrose, xylose, molasses, vinasse, bagasse hydrolysate, yeast extract, yeast autolysate, and inactivated dry yeast besides different inorganic nitrogen sources. Sugarcane molasses free of pre-treatment was the best carbon source, even compared to pure sucrose, with intracellular polymer accumulation values of 41.1-46.