World Journal of
Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences

CAPABILITY OF CELLULOLYTIC BACTERIA ISOLATES IN REMOVING CELLULOSE-BASED MATERIALS INTO COMPOST

*Fuji Astuti Febria (F.A.Febria), Chairul, Anthoni Agustien (A. Agustien), Riri Kurnia Ilahi (R.K.Ilahi), Elsa Rohmah (E. Rohmah)

ABSTRACT

There is a dispersed presence of microorganisms exploiting polysaccharides from decaying plant biomass such as compost. To determine the ability of cellulolytic bacteria in the degradation process, the addition of 3 combinations of isolates, namely, I1 (inoculum of all isolates of positive cellulolytic bacteria), I2 (inoculum of 3 isolates with the highest enzyme activity), I3 (inoculum of isolates with the highest enzyme activity). The average physical condition of the compost in the three treatments was relatively similar to each other so that the difference in compost quality was not very distinguishable from the physical observation of this compost. On average, the color of the compost has a blackish color, although in the combination of adding 1 isolate with the highest enzyme activity, the brown litter color is still slightly visible. For the aroma produced by the compost, most of it smelled like soil in general, but a few still had an unpleasant smell, the average temperature for each replication and treatment was the same, which was 26oC, while the pH in each compost treatment was quite different in the range of 6.81. -7.65 on each replicate. The average percentage of the highest N and K elements was found in the addition of 3 isolates with the highest enzyme activity, namely the percentage of N elements 11.03% and K element values 1.434%.

[Full Text Article]   [Download Certificate]