What is it about?
The growth medium for bacterial cellulose comes with various media that use artificial carbon sources as one of the ingredients in media preparation. This paper shows the alternative carbon sources that can substitute for the original carbon source, such as artificial glucose, maltose, and sucrose. Watermelon waste is one of the sources that can be used due to its high content of simple macronutrients, especially sugar. Besides that, it is also accessible and cheap to obtain.
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Why is it important?
Our findings are more focused on the macronutrient's content in the watermelon waste, which becomes one of the characteristics for which we think it's suitable as one of the alternatives in bacterial cellulose production. Then, we also analyse the bacterial cellulose's physical characteristics by using FTIR-ATR.
Perspectives
This article makes more people open-minded towards cellulose production, and plant-based cellulose can have quite a negative impact on our lives due to deforestation. This is because cutting the tree is required to make cellulose. By changing the cellulose production method to bacteria, it's not only helping reduce tree logging problems, but it's also easier and requires only a small area to culture cellulose bacteria.
Muhammad Irhamni Haziqi Nasharudin
Universiti Malaysia Pahang
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This page is a summary of: Watermelon waste as a growth media substitute for bacterial cellulose production, January 2024, American Institute of Physics,
DOI: 10.1063/5.0188785.
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