Volume : 9, Issue : 4, April - 2020

INFLUENCE OF SUPPLEMENTATION OF CARBOHYDRATES AND NITROGEN SOURCES ON PROTEASE PRODUCTION IN SOME TOMATO FUNGI

C. S. Swami, N. M. Ghangaonkar

Abstract :

Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) is one of the common vegetables grown all over the country extensively almost the year round. The crop is reported to be affected by about twenty diseases of microbial origin. Among them, the fungal pathogens have been found to affect and damage severely the tomato fruits both in field at different developmental stages as well as in the market during storage. This may result in the qualitative and quantitative loss of tomato fruits. The fungi are known to produce different hydrolytic enzymes during pathogenesis. These enzymes degrade the food contents. During the present investigation, studies were made on the influence of supplementation of some nutritional factors viz. carbohydrates and nitrogen sources on protease production in some fungi isolated from tomato fruits. These factors were found to affect the protease production in the fungi.