Abd-El All, S., Moharram, S., Mohamad, N., Ahmed, P. (2006). PROUDUCTON OF RED YEAST RICE BY Monascus Purpureus. Journal of Agricultural Chemistry and Biotechnology, 31(11), 7363-7370. doi: 10.21608/jacb.2006.224989
S.M. Abd-El All; Samia E. Moharram; N.G. Mohamad; PH. Ahmed. "PROUDUCTON OF RED YEAST RICE BY Monascus Purpureus". Journal of Agricultural Chemistry and Biotechnology, 31, 11, 2006, 7363-7370. doi: 10.21608/jacb.2006.224989
Abd-El All, S., Moharram, S., Mohamad, N., Ahmed, P. (2006). 'PROUDUCTON OF RED YEAST RICE BY Monascus Purpureus', Journal of Agricultural Chemistry and Biotechnology, 31(11), pp. 7363-7370. doi: 10.21608/jacb.2006.224989
Abd-El All, S., Moharram, S., Mohamad, N., Ahmed, P. PROUDUCTON OF RED YEAST RICE BY Monascus Purpureus. Journal of Agricultural Chemistry and Biotechnology, 2006; 31(11): 7363-7370. doi: 10.21608/jacb.2006.224989
PROUDUCTON OF RED YEAST RICE BY Monascus Purpureus
Microbiology Department, National Organization for Drug Control and Research (NODCAR), Giza, Egypt. PO. Box -29
Abstract
Different cultural media were employed to study their effects on the production of red yeast rice ( R.Y.R) with high concentration of lovastatin by Monascus purpureus . A modified medium containing 200 g sterile local rice. 4 g mannose, 2.5 g monosodium glutamate and 2 g yeast extract at pH 5.0 was inOCulated by 25 ml of a 7-day culture of the above fungus and incubated statically at 30 °C for 72 hours. then incubated at 25 °C for 10 days with environmental humidity being around 65 % using these conditions 0.2365 % of lovastatin was produced. The amount of dry R.Y.R. produced was 113 g from 200 9 rice, which contains 1,419 mg lovastatin in 600 mg dry RtYR,