“…Among the alpha-glucosidases that have been studied, the vast majority are derived from microorganisms while only a few are from plants and animals. Aspergillus niger ( Liu et al, 2013 ; Hatano et al, 2017 ), Aspergills foetidus, Bacillus licheniformis ( Nawaz et al, 2014 ; Nawaz et al, 2016 ), Pseudoalteromonas sp. ( Li et al, 2016 ), Podospora anserina ( Song et al, 2013 ), Monascus rubervan Tieghem ( Chen & Xie, 2008 ), crenarchaeon Sulfolobus tokodaii ( Park et al, 2013 ) , Patinopecten yessoensis ( Masuda et al, 2016 ) , Geobacillus sp ( Hung et al, 2005 ), Malbranchea cinnamomea ( Yan et al, 2015 ), Saccharomyces cerevisiae ( Hossain et al, 2016 ) , Xanthophyllomyces dendrorhous ( Gutierrez-Alonso et al, 2016 ) , Thermus thermophilus ( Zhou, Xue & Ma, 2015 ) , rice seed ( Kim et al, 2016 ), Bifidobacterium adolescentis , Geobacillus stearothermophilus , Bombyx mori , and Spodoptera frugiperda ( Watanabe et al, 2013 ) secrete alpha-glucosidase.…”