carried out CTS production using differ-ent waste substrates, such as soy bean, corn seed and canola residue
with A. niger PTCC 5012. The highest amount of CTS (17.1 ± 1.0 g/kg
of dry substrate) was recorded using soy bean residues having
moisture content 37% and nitrogen content of 8.4 ± 0.3% after
12 days incubation period. However, corn seed residues having
1.9 ± 0.4% of nitrogen content resulted in very lower amount of
CTS. Recently, Maghsoodi et al. (2009) studied the effect of glucose
supplementation on CTS production in SmF of A. niger BBRC 20004.
The addition of 8% glucose in sobouro dextrose broth resulted in
the highest production of CTS 0.912 g/L as compared to 0.845 g/L
without glucose after 12 days of cultivation. Although, the CTS pro-duction from Aspergillus waste biomass is lower than few other
studies, however, the present study utilized the negative cost waste
biomass resulting from CA production which renders it more eco-nomical than from the fungal biomass obtained by culturing them
on costly substrates