Highest amount of cellulase
enzyme was produced when wheat straw (which had significantly
the highest amount of cellulose) was used as the substrate. Second
highest amount of cellulase was produced when wheat bran was
used as the substrate in spite of having low cellulose content as
compared to corn cob and sugar cane bagasse
This can be
attributed to the fact that wheat bran had significantly lower
amount of lignin as compared to corncob and sugarcane bagasse
which could have hindered the exposure of cellulose towards
degradation (Perez et al., 2002).