Research Article
S. Anbuselvi, Avinash and Mana
Abstract
The alarming rate of high population rate and rapid dwindling of natural resources have resulted in scarcity of food especially protein shortage in third world countries since the latter half of 20th century. Single cell protein production is an excellent alternative. The dried cells of microbes are commercially as source of proteins for food and animal feed. The extraction of single cell protein from coleus potato using fungi was analyzed. The optimum production of SCP was observed in nitrogen enriched medium than carbon enriched medium