There are many reports describing the use of sucrose as the carbon source primarily for inulinase production (6,29,30,62,72,73). Poorna and Kulkarni (4) carried out a study on the use of various carbon sources, singly or in combination for inulinase production using fractional factorial design. The results suggested that inulinase production by fungal culture was probably inducible and subject to catabolic represssion.