A Study on Released Sugars From Pectin and Related Proteins By Several Mocur

The present study was aimed to screen the pectinase activity from some generaof Mocur in laboratory conditions. Pectin was used as the only carbon source in aminimal culture medium. Tow days after inoculation released proteins and sugarswere assayed with related reagents and repeated each 2 days up to 21th day.Statistical analysis showed significant variation in released sugars and releasedproteins among tested genera. Mucor hiemalis silvaticus had highest and Mucorcircinelloides janssenii had lowest sugar levels. Also Mucor circinelloidesf. lusitanicus had highest and Mucor plumbeus had lowest protein levels. Glucoseand protein levels for superior Species have increased until 15 and 13 days,respectively for glucose and protein after inoculation, then decreased until 25th day,but had no variation until 30th day. These results showed that isolates belong to thesame forms had no significance difference in pectinase activity.