Breeding of flocculent industrial alcohol yeast strains by self-cloning of the flocculation gene FLO1 and repeated-batch fermentation by transformants

Journal of General and Applied Microbiology

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 347-353

  Ishida Fujii, Keiko ^a   Goto, Shingo ^a   Sugiyama, Hiroki ^b   Takagi, Yoshio ^a   Saiki, Takashi ^a   Takagi, Masamichi ^c  

^a NEW ENERGY AND INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION   (Japan)

^b SAPPORO BREWERIES LTD   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alcohol yeast; FLO1; Flocculation; Industrial alcohol production; Polyploidy; Repeated batch fermentation; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Self cloning

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; URACIL;

ARTICLE; CULTURE MEDIUM; FERMENTATION; FLOCCULATION; GENE LOCUS; GROWTH RATE; INDUSTRY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; POLYPLOIDY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; YEAST;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0032448153     PISSN: 00221260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2323/jgam.44.347     Document Type: Article

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