“…Those bacteria that produced halo zones around colonies in PVK medium were able to produce organic acids in broth culture. This result is in accordance with Ogut et al (2010). This is also in agreement with Mehta et al (2001), Chen et al (2006), Ivanova et al (2006), Ponmurugan and Gopi (2012), and Karpagam and Nagalakshmi (2014) who recorded production of organic acids like butyric, malonic, succinic, malic, gluconic, acetic, glucenic, tartaric, gluconic, maleic, propionic, adipic and 2-ketogluconic acids by PSB in broth culture.…”