ANTIMICROBIALPROPERTIESOFBACILLUSSPECIESISOLATED FROMFERMENTEDLOCUSTBEANS(PARKIABIGLOBOSA)

Student: Tope Omotoyosi Ajibade
Supervisor: Mrs Omobayonle Ajao
HOD: Dr Comfort Tosin Olateru
Department of Biology
Science
The Polytechnic, Ibadan, Oyo State

Abstract

ABSTRACT determined.Bacillussp.withantimicrobialpropertieswereidentifiedusing thereforelookintoAntimicrobialpropertiesofBacillusspecieisolatedfrom molecularmethod.30bacterialwereisolatedwithonly5potentialBacillusspecies demonstratedantimicrobialpropertiesagainsttheselectedpathogens.Outofthese Fermentedlocustbean.TwodifferentspeciesofLocustbeanwerecollectedfrom selectedmarketsinIbadan.BacillusspwereisolatedfromfermentedLocustbean antimicrobialpotentialsrespectively.Their16srRNAamplifiedat1500bpandwere weightpolypeptides,byribosomalornon-ribosomalmechanisms.Thisstudy five potential Bacillus species, only isolate Ir15 and Ir14 had the highest exhibitawiderangeofantimicrobialactivitiesandareproducedaslowmolecular Bacillusspeciesareoneofthelargestsourcesofbioactivenaturalproducts,which usingstandardmethod.AntimicrobialpropertiesofisolatedBacillusspp.was molecularlyidentifiedas:BacillusparamycoidesandBacilluscereus.

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