Corrigendum: Agro-Industrial Wastes for Production of Biosurfactant by ANR 88 and Its Application in Synthesis of Silver and Gold Nanoparticles.

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Agro-Industrial Wastes for Production of Biosurfactant by ANR 88 and Its Application in Synthesis of Silver and Gold Nanoparticles.

Biosurfactants, surface-active amphiphilic compounds, despite having a wide range of applications, have a high cost of production, which severely restricts their use. For cheaper production of biosurfactant, we investigated the potential of the indigenously isolated biosurfactant producing organism, ANR 88, to grow on different cheap carbon sources (molasses, whey, and extracts of potato peels, orange peels, banana peels, and bagasse). We found that, ANR 88 used significant amounts of total sugar to produce cell biomass and biosurfactant.