Abstract

ISOLATION, IDENTIFICATION AND CHARACTERISATION OF ANTIBIOTIC PRODUCING BACTERIA FROM SOIL AT Dr C V RAMAN UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BILASPUR (C.G.)

Anshu Gupta, Dr. Shweta Sao*, Dr. Raman Kataria and Dr. Yogesh Jain

Abstract

Antibiotics are one of the most important commercially exploited secondary metabolites produced by the bacteria and employed in a wide range. Most of the antibiotic producers used today are the soil microbes. Bacteria are generally used and easily to isolate, culture, maintain and to improve their strains. Microbes are Omni present and exist in environment. Bacillus species, filamentous species, being the predominant soil bacteria because of their resistance endospore formation and production of vital antibiotics such as bacitracin etc. are always found inhibiting the growth of other microorganisms. Actinomycetes are aerobic, gram-positive bacteria that form branching filaments or hyphae and asexual spores. Actinomycetes produce most of the medically useful natural antibiotics. In this, project soil bacteria with the antibiotics activity have been screened and studied for morphological characters which can provide valuable information about the strain.

Keywords: Antibiotics, Actinomycetes, morphological characters.