“…The main sources of these enzymes are fruits and vegetables (Khadija et al, 2016). Among microbial sources, Aspergillus niger, Aspergillus oryzae, Penicillium restrictum, Penicillium expansum, Trichoderma viridae, Mucor piriformis, Chryseobacterium indologens, Bacillus subtilis, Bacillus cereus, Bacillus licheniformis, and Actinomycetes are of prime importance (Bhardwaj et al, 2017).Microbial production of pectinases is preferred over plant sources because enzyme produced from microbial source is more controllable and predictable as pH is within neutral range, low production cost, controllability of enzyme content, less space required for enzyme cultivation, and rapid growth (Sindhu et al, 2017). Commercially, these enzymes are obtained from fungi because they can be cultured easily (Javed et al, 2018).…”