Influence of fermented tannery solid waste on morphological, biochemical, yield and nutritional responses of tomato plants

• Published in: Environmental science and pollution research international Vol. 22; no. 6; pp. 4327 - 4335
• Main Authors: Ravindran, B, Wong, J. W. C, Selvam, A, Murugesan, K, Mohanapriya, D, Sekaran, G
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer-Verlag 01.03.2015; Springer Berlin Heidelberg; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Agricultural production; Animals; Aquatic Pollution; Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution; Bacteria; Bacteria - metabolism; Biochemistry; Biofilms; Biomass; Bioreactors; Chemical oxygen demand; Crop yield; Cultivation; Drinking water; Earth and Environmental Science; Ecotoxicology; Environment; Environmental Chemistry; Environmental Health; Fermentation; Fertilizers; Freshwater environments; Fruit; Fruit cultivation; fruit yield; Hydrolysates; Industrial Waste - analysis; Leather & leather products; Leaves; Loam soils; Lycopersicon esculentum; Lycopersicon esculentum - drug effects; Lycopersicon esculentum - metabolism; Moisture content; Molecular weight; Morphology; Nitrogen; NPK fertilizers; Nutritive value; Pesticide toxicity; Pesticides; Plant growth; Plants; Plants (organisms); polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis; Potassium; Proteins; Research Article; Seeds; Selenomonas ruminantium; Solid Waste - analysis; Solid wastes; Tanneries; Tannery wastes; Tanning; Tomatoes; Toxicity; Waste Water Technology; Water Management; Water Pollution Control; Hong Kong China; China; India; Submerged fermentation; Biochemical properties; Solid-state fermentation; Tomato; Animal fleshing; Yield attributes
• ISSN: 0944-1344; 1614-7499
• DOI: 10.1007/s11356-014-3629-6

The non-tanned proteinaceous tannery solid waste animal fleshing (ANFL), containing high nutritive value, was hydrolyzed using bacteria Selenomonas ruminantium HM000123 through submerged (SmF) and solid-state (SSF) fermentation processes. In addition, the effects of ANFL fermentative hydrolysate on growth, yield and biochemical properties of tomato plants were investigated. The treatments included T1 (SmF-ANFL), T2 (SSF-ANFL), T3 (recommended dose of NPK fertilizers) and a control without any amendment. Hydrolysates of both SmF-ANFL and SSF-ANFL treatments increased the biomass and yield as evidenced by plant height, stem girth, number of leaves and fruit yield when compared with both NPK and control plants. In this 90-day study, significant (p ≤ 0.05) changes were observed in SSF-ANFL treated plants compared to the other treatments. Protein profile analyzed through SDS-PAGE indicates the expression of a high molecular weight protein (205 kDa) and other proteins in the leaves of the SSF-ANFL treated plants. Overall results revealed that SSF-ANFL can be successfully utilized as a fertilizer particularly for cultivating tomato plants.