“…α-Amylase production has been reported from thermophilic and hyperthermophilic bacteria and archaea like Pyrococcus, Thermococcus , and Sulfolobus species (Leuschner and Antranikian, 1995 ; Sunna et al, 1997 ), G. thermoleovorans (Rao and Satyanarayana, 2007a ), B. acidocaldarius (Buonocore et al, 1976 ), and Alicyclobacillus sp. A4 (Bai et al, 2012 ), from mesophiles B. amyloliquifaciens (Gangadharan et al, 2008 ), Halomonas meridiana (Coronado et al, 2000a ) B. subtilis (Ravindar and Elangovan, 2013 ), Lactobacillus plantarum (Kanpiengjai et al, 2015 ) as well as from psychrotolerants and psychrophiles Microbacterium foliorum GA2 (Roohi and Kuddus, 2014 ) and Aeromonas veronii NS07 (Samie et al, 2012 ). Among different carbon sources used, starch, fructose, glucose, and rice flour, are known to support high enzyme production (Ezeji et al, 2005 ; Prakash et al, 2009 ).…”