Prevention of aerobic spoilage of maize silage by a genetically modified killer yeast, Kluyveromyces lactis, defective in the ability to grow on lactic acid

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 4697-4700

  Kitamoto, H K ^a   Hasebe, A ^a   Ohmomo, S ^b   Suto, E G ^a   Muraki, M ^c   Iimura, Y ^d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^c Natl Grassland Research Institute   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LACTIC ACID; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE CARBOXYKINASE (GTP);

AEROBIC METABOLISM; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; FERMENTATION; FOOD SPOILAGE; FUNGAL GENETICS; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE DISRUPTION; GLUCONEOGENESIS; KLUYVEROMYCES; MAIZE; NONHUMAN; PICHIA; YEAST;

ANIMALIA; FUNGI; KLUYVEROMYCES; KLUYVEROMYCES LACTIS; PICHIA; PICHIA ANOMALA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0032850684     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.10.4697-4700.1999     Document Type: Article

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