Isolation and Identification of Microbes from Kombucha Producing Bacterial Cellulose
Traditional kombucha will form a layer of white membrane in green tea-sucrose medium surface. Microbes attached to the membrane were taken. The A and Y strains were isolated by crossing on the acetic acid bacterial and yeast plate medium. The two strains were isolated and identified Gluconobacter asai and Schizosaccharomyces pombeLinder by observing the colonies & cell morphology and physiological & biochemical tests separately. The mixture of the two strains was inoculated in green tea-sucrose medium and the products were identified as bacterial cellulose.