Background: In West Bengal, India, a huge amount of lignocellulosic jute waste products, in the form of unutilizedcut pieces of jute caddies consisting 65% cellulose, 22.5% hemicellulose, and 11% lignin, is generated from juteindustries. Naturally, the high percentage of lignocellulolytic material made it an attractive substrate for thehydrolytic cleavage of lignocellulolytic enzymes, namely xylanases and cellulases. The present study aims for theproduction of xylanolytic and cellulolytic enzymes by a fungal isolate Penicillium janthinellum MTCC10889 using acheap medium containing residual jut

Background: The present investigation was undertaken to assess the residual influence of organic materials andbiofertilizers applied to rice and wheat on yield, nutrient status, and economics of succeeding mung bean in anorganic cropping system. The field experiments were carried out on the research farm of IARI, New Delhi duringcrop cycles of 2006 to 2007 and 2007 to 2008 to study the effects of residual organic manures, crop residues, andbiofertilizers applied to rice and wheat on the performance of succeeding mung bean. The experiment was laid outin a randomized block design with three replications. Treatments consisted of six combinations of different residualorganic materials, and biofertilizers included residual farmyard manure (FYM) and vermicompost (VC) applied onnitrogen basis at 60 kg ha−1 to each rice and wheat crops, FYM + wheat and rice residues at 6 t ha−1 and mungbean residue at 3 t ha−1 in succeeding crops (CR), VC + CR, FYM + CR + biofertilizers (B), VC + CR + B, and control(no fertilizer applied). For biofertilizers, cellulolytic culture, phosphate-solubilizing bacteria and Rhizobium applied inmung bean.Results: Incorporation of crop residue significantly increased the grain yield of mung bean over residual of FYMand VC by 25.5% and 26.5%, respectively. The combinations of FYM + CR + B and VC + RR + B resulted in thehighest increase growth and yield attributing characters of mung bean and increased grain yield of mung beanover the control by 47% and net return by 27%.Conclusions: The present study thus indicate that a combination of FYM + CR + B and VC + CR + B wereeconomical for the nutrient need of mung bean in organic farming of rice-based cropping system.