NEET BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Microbial citric acid has high economic importance and widely used in beverage, food, detergents, cosmetics and pharmaceutical industries. The filamentous fungus Aspergillus niger is a work horse and important cell factory in industry for the production of citric acid.

Detailed explanation-2: -One of the most important fungi used in industrial microbiology, Aspergillus niger, has been employed for many years for the commercial production of citric acid.

Detailed explanation-3: -Citric acid is the world’s largest consumed organic acid and is widely used in beverage, food and pharmaceutical industries. Aspergillus niger is the main industrial workhorse for citric acid production.

Detailed explanation-4: -Aspergillus niger is one of the most important microorganisms used in biotechnology. It has been in use already for many decades to produce extracellular (food) enzymes and citric acid.

Detailed explanation-5: -Citric acid is the principal organic acid found in citrus fruits. To meet increasing demands it is produced from carbohydrate feedstock by fermentation with the fungus Aspergillus niger and the yeasts of Candida spp.