Uses of Textile Industry
Amylases isolated from bacteria, fungi, pancreas and malt are used in textile industry as softening agents for starched clothes. (Starch is often added to cotton fibres as a stiffening agent, before weaving the fibre into cloth. Since, a starched cloth does not take good colour, the cloth is to be de starched before dyeing it. This is done with an amylase preparation, which hydrolyses starch).


