Kombucha tea is a traditional fermented beverage of Manchurian origins which is made of sugar and tea. The fermentation involves the application of a symbiotic consortium of bacteria and yeast (SCOBY) in which their metabolites provide health benefits for the consumer and subsequently allow the product to protect itself from contamination. Additionally, kombucha tea fermentation also produces a byproduct in the form of a pellicle composed of cellulose (Bacterial Cellulose, BC). Compared to plant cellulose, BC properties are more superior, which makes it industrially important. However, BC production at industrial scale has been faced with many challenges, including low yield and high fermentation medium cost. Many researchers have focused their studies on the use of alternative low cost media, such as molasses, which is a by-product of sugar refining process. To maximize the BC production in molasses medium, it is important to select the microbial strains that can grow and produce BC at high yield in molasses. This study aimed to isolate and characterize BC-producing bacteria and a dominant yeast from kombucha culture which had been previously adapted in molasses medium. The isolation of bacteria was performed using Nutrient Agar (NA) and Hestrin and Schramm (HS) supplemented with cycloheximide, while yeast was isolated using Potato Dextrose Agar (PDA) supplemented with chloramphenicol. The most dominant colonies were isolated and then subjected to microscopic observation for morphological analysis. The pure bacteria and yeast isolates were then identified by sequencing the 16S rRNA gene and D1/D2 region of the 26S rRNA, respectively. The bacteria isolates obtained were all from closely related genera: Komagataeibacter sp. DS1MA.62A, Komagataeibacter xylinus, Komagataeibacter saccharivorans, Komagataeibacter xylinus and Gluconacetobacter saccharivorans. The single isolated yeast was identified as Brettanomyces bruxellensis. This study helps to elucidate the BC-producing species which thrive in molasses medium for potential use in the BC production using molasses as alternative cheap carbon source. Also, the study revealed that the co-culture of Komagataeibacter sp. DS1MA.62A and B. bruxellensis could produce BC from molasses supplemented with caffeine and acetate buffer at an average yield of 27.7±1.83 g/L. Keywords: Kombucha, SCOBY, bacterial cellulose, Acetobacter, Komagataeibacter, Brettanomyces, alternative medium, molasses, caffeine, acetate buffer.
At around 1 year of age, human infants display a number of new behaviors that seem to indicate a newly emerging understanding of other persons as intentional beings whose attention to outside objects may be shared, followed into, and directed in various ways. These behaviors have mostly been studied separately. In the current study, we investigated the most important of these behaviors together as they emerged in a single group of 24 infants between 9 and 15 months of age. At each of seven monthly visits, we measured joint attentional engagement, gaze and point following, imitation of two different kinds of actions on objects, imperative and declarative gestures, and comprehension and production of language. We also measured several nonsocial-cognitive skills as a point of comparison.We report two studies. The focus of the first study was the initial emergence of infants' social-cognitive skills and how these skills are related to one another developmentally. We found a reliable pattern of emergence: Infants progressed from sharing to following to directing others' attention and behavior. The nonsocial skills did not emerge predictably in this developmental sequence. Furthermore, correlational analyses showed that the ages of emergence of all pairs of the social-cognitive skills or their components were interrelated. The focus of the second study was the social interaction of infants and their mothers, especially with regard to their skills of joint attentional engagement (including mothers' use of language to follow into or direct infants' attention) and how these skills related to infants' early communicative competence. Our measures of communicative competence included not only language production, as in previous studies, but also language comprehension and gesture production. It was found that two measures-the amount of time infants spent in joint engagement with their mothers and the degree V
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