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About myself
I am a Microbiologist and a researcher. My passion towards the Microbes led me to work on different projects of Agricultural Microbiology& Biotechnology, Aqua problems - Microbial solutions, Bioremediation,Nano particle synthesis from Microbes, Enzyme production etc. One can find my research updates in this blog.
Sukumar Karuganti
Good bugs and Bad bugs:
"Not all the microbes are bad (pathogenic/harmful)". Most of the microbes are good bugs as they help human beings in several ways. For example, Gut Probiotic bacteria which plays an major role in the digestion of food and invading the pathogenic microbes.
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Bacillus subtilis is rod shaped , endospore forming bacterium. This can be used for seed treatment as fungicide and in Aquaculture it can be used as Gut Probiotic because of its antiviral properties.
Bacillus subtilis
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"Microbes as Flocculants in treating the waste water"
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Suspended solids, colloids and cell debris are the main constituents of waste water, which can be effectively removed by flocculation. Use of flocculating agents is an important step in wastewater treatment and downstream processing industries (Wang et al. 2007). Synthetic polymers like acrylamide, acrylic acid and mixtures of their derivatives are widely employed as flocculants to separate suspended solids in waste water as well as in drinking water. Though synthetic flocculants are frequently used as flocculants, their toxicity and subsequent hazards in humans as well as laboratory animals make them unsuitable for flocculation. It has been reported that acrylamide monomers seem to be neurotoxic, carcinogenic and causes ailments like neuropathies, ataxia, numbness of hands and feet, muscle weakness and in some cases, cerebellar alterations even at a sub-chronic concentration (Pennisi et al. 2013). Hence, it is important to develop potential flocculating agents having desired characters like being inexpensive, highly efficient, non-toxic and environmental friendly. In such a scenario, extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) produced by microorganisms are gaining importance as bioflocculants due to their ecofriendly nature, non-toxicity and biodegradability (Salehizadeh and Shojaosadati 2001).
- By Siddhardha Busi and Sukumar Karuganti
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