The effect of temperature on ferulic acid production by Aspergillus fumigatus (F01) from sago bark for generating biovanillin

Fatin Saiyidah, Ahmad Nordin (2015) The effect of temperature on ferulic acid production by Aspergillus fumigatus (F01) from sago bark for generating biovanillin. [Final Year Project Report] (Unpublished)

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Abstract

Vanilla (4-Hydroxy-3-methoxybenzaldehyde) most commonly used as food flavouring agents. The demand for natural vanillin especially the amount of natural vanillin available that extracted from the vanillin pods is high. This has led to the investigation of alternative ways for the production of this flavour such as the biotechnological production from microorganisms known as biovanillin. Biovanillin can be produced by using different sources of microorganism including Aspergillus fumigatus. To produce biovanillin, ferulic acid (FA) was used as vanillin precursor. Therefore, the aim of the study is to produce FA from A. fumigatus. This was done via solid state fermentation (SSF) by using sago bark as substrate. Different range of temperature (30°C-40°C) that effects the FA production was studied. From this experiment it is found that the optimal temperature to produce high FA production was at 3SOC with duration of 10 days of incubation time. The amount of FA produced was 0.8812 mglg with 0.2643 U/g amount offerulic acid esterase (FAe) activity.

Item Type:	Final Year Project Report
Additional Information:	Project Report (B.Sc.) -- Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, 2015.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Solid state fermentation (SSF), ferulic acid (FA), ferulic acid esterase (F Ae ),sago bark; and Aspergillus fumigatus (FO 1)., unimas, university, universiti, Borneo, Malaysia, Sarawak, Kuching, Samarahan, ipta, education, undergraduate, research, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak
Subjects:	T Technology > TP Chemical technology
Divisions:	Academic Faculties, Institutes and Centres > Faculty of Resource Science and Technology Faculties, Institutes, Centres > Faculty of Resource Science and Technology
Depositing User:	Karen Kornalius
Date Deposited:	14 Apr 2016 07:37
Last Modified:	23 Aug 2023 07:11
URI:	http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/11416

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