~ 426 ~ Journal of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry 2017; 6(6): 426-428 E-ISSN: 2278-4136 P-ISSN: 2349-8234 JPP 2017; 6(6): 426-428 Received: 04-09-2017 Accepted: 05-10-2017 S Anbu Department of Biochemistry, Sacred Heart College (Autonomous), Tirupattur, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India J Padma Government Seed Testing Laboratory, Kottampalayam, Thiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu, India K Punithavalli Department of Biochemistry, Sacred Heart College (Autonomous), Tirupattur, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India P Saranraj Department of Microbiology, Sacred Heart College (Autonomous), Tirupattur, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India Correspondence S Anbu Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Sacred Heart College (Autonomous), Tirupattur, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India Fruits peel waste as a novel media for the growth of economically important Fungi S Anbu, J Padma, K Punithavalli and P Saranraj Abstract The present study was aimed to formulate growth media using fruits peel waste materials such as Pine apple, Mango, Jack fruit, Green Banana, Yellow Banana, Sweet Lime and Pomegranate. The fresh fruits were collected from local market of Tirupattur, Tamil Nadu and the peels were used for the study. The peels were air dried, grinded into fine particles using mortar and pestle and then sieved with 1mm sieve size. Fungi isolates (Aspergillus niger, Rhizopus stolonifer and Penicillium chrysogenum) were isolated from spoilt bread and orange using potato dextrose agar (PDA) and identified. About 4.0 grams of fruit peel wastes were added into the 100 ml of distilled water and sterilized by autoclaving at 121°C for 15 minutes. After Serilization, the fruit peel waste broths were cooled and then one ml of industrially important fungal inoculums was added. The inoculums added broths were incubated at room temperature for 3 days. The presence/absence of the fungi growth was visually observed. A. niger growth was recorded in the medium containing Pine apple, Mango, Jack fruit and Green banana. The A. niger growth was not recorded in the medium containing Yellow banana, Sweet lime and Pomegranate. R. stolonifer growth was observed in the medium which contains Pine apple, Mango, Sweet lime and Pomegranate. The R. stolonifer growth was not recorded in the medium containing Yellow banana, Jack fruit and Mango. However, the P. chrysogenum growth was recorded in the medium which contains Pine apple, Mango, Sweet lime and Pomegranate. The P. chrysogenum growth was not recorded in the medium containing Yellow banana, Jack fruit and Mango. Keywords: Fruit peel wastes, Fungi, Aspergillus niger, Rhizopus stolonifer and Penicillium chrysogenum Introduction Modern efficient agricultural practices mobilize huge productions of fruit and vegetables throughout the world. Banana, pineapple, mango and papaya are among the most widely acceptable fruits (Jamal et al., 2012) [6] . Wastes emanating from aforementioned fruits include peels, pulp and seeds that constitute about 40 % of the total mass. The majority of these waste materials was often improperly disposed; hence constitute huge environmental disorders (Essien et al., 2005; Lim et al., 2010) [2] . Fruit waste dumping sites provide necessary impetus for vectors, pathogenic bacteria and yeast to thrive. A popular approach to mitigating fruit waste poor handling is landfill and incineration. These methods orchestrate an acute air pollution problem by generating massive leachates that contaminate ground water and destroy aquatic lives (Ali et al., 2014) [4] . The fruit peel wastes contain simple and complex sugars that are metabolizable by microorganisms (Saheed et al., 2013) [5] and have much attention for their conversion to bio- ethanol, biogas and animal feed (Tijani et al., 2012) [6] . Designing treatment schemes for specific agricultural residue limits efficiency of waste collection and prolong treatment period. Therefore, adoption of a method that accommodates several fruit wastes is highly robust, cheap and realistic in ameliorating impediments associated with fruit waste disposal (Aggelopoulos et al., 2014) [7] . The cultivation of microbial cells (bacteria, yeast, and fungi) that converts fruit wastes into value added products such as biomass that can serve as animal feed supplement is a unique approach. Generally fungi are grown on Potato dextrose agar (PDA), Sabouraud’s dextrose agar (SDA), Rose Bengal Agar (RBA) and Corn Meal agar (CMA) which are very expensive. Basically, every fungus requires carbon, nitrogen and energy source to grow and survive. Utilization of agricultural waste as a substrate for fungal cultures for the production of value added products has been reported which includes cellulase production by some fungi cultured on pineapple waste. Carotenoids production is carried out on agricultural waste using Blakeslea trispora (Papaioannou and Liakopoulou Kyriakides, 2012) [8] and cellulase enzyme production on agricultural waste by Aspergillus niger. Sugarcane bagasse has been also reported as an energy source for the production of lipase by Aspergillus fumigatus (Naqvi et al., 2013) [9] .