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Isolation of a tannin-protein complex-degrading fungus from faeces of hill cattle
T K Bhat1, H P Makkar, B Singh
1Regional Station, Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Palampur, India.
Letters in Applied Microbiology
|April 1, 1996
Abstract:
Faecal samples of 52 hill cattle fed largely on oak leaves were screened for tannin-protein complex-degrading micro-organisms under different culture conditions using tannin-treated brain heart infusion agar medium. None of the animals were found to harbour tannin-protein complex-degrading enterobacteria. However, a fungus identified as Aspergillus niger van Tieghem having tannin-protein complex-degrading activity, was consistently isolated from the faeces of such animals. Optimum growth and sporulation was noticed under aerobic conditions at 30 degrees C on Czapek Yeast Agar medium.