Author(s)

Sujjat Al Azad, Wong Hao Jie, M. T. B. M. Lal

Borneo Marine Research Institute, University Malaysia Sabah, Jalan UMS, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia.

This experiment was conducted to determine the possibility of utilization of vegetable waste juice in the production of purple non-sulfur bacterium Afifella marina biomass. Bacterium was cultured in four diluted such as, 10%, 20%, 30% and 40% (v/v) vegetable waste juices. In addition synthetic 112 media were used as control to compare the growth characteristics of Afifella marine. The bacterium Afifella marina grew well in 10% diluted vegetable waste juice in anaerobic light condition with the highest production of 5.02 g/l dry cell weight in fifth day of culture, whereas the highest total carotenoid production of 0.87 mg/g dry cell weight was recorded in third day of culture. The highest dry cell weight productions recorded in 10% of VWJ was significantly higher compared to four other treatments (F = 14.63; p = 0.00). However, the total carotenoid production of bacteria in 10% VWJ showed no significant difference compared to the carotenoid production in 112 synthetic media, but was significantly higher compared to three other treatments (P = 0.00). The bacterium, Afifella marina has the ability to use vegetable waste juice at certain level for the production of bacterial biomass.

Afifella marina, Vegetable Waste Juice, Dry Cell Weight and Carotenoid Production

Al Azad, S. , Hao Jie, W. and T. B. M. Lal, M. (2018) Utilization of Vegetable Waste Juice by Purple Non-Sulfur Bacterium (Afifella marina Strain ME) for Biomass Production. Journal of Geoscience and Environment Protection, 6, 210-219. doi: 10.4236/gep.2018.65017.