Very few reports are available on optimization of lavastatin production under SSF and this study is one of the few.
Some of essential nutrients available in solid substrate can be of sub-optimal concentrations or absent.
Basic supplementation of required nutrients could act as an inducer for growth and/or production of any metabolite.
Therefore, an attempt was made in this study to optimize the solid substrate with varied supplements which resulted in few significant findings which could be exploited for large scale production of lovastatin in A. under SSF.