Characteristics and Propionate Production of Propionibacterium Isolated from a Methane fermentation Digester

Microbes and Environments

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 151-159

  Tsurumi, Rika ^a   Takeda, Kiyoshi ^b   Tonouchi, Akio ^b  

^a Shirakawa Factory   (Japan)

^b HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

competitive lactate fermentation; methane fermentation; mixed culture; Propionibacterium

Indexed keywords

EID: 0008815773     PISSN: 13426311     EISSN: 13474405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1264/jsme2.2000.151     Document Type: Article

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