Sugar beet diffusion juice and syrup as media for ethanol and levan production by Zymomonas mobilis

Food Biotechnology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 107-119

  Bekers, Martin ^a   Linde, Raimonds ^a   Danilevich, Aleksej ^a   Kaminska, Ellena ^a   Upite, Dagnija ^a   Vigants, Armands ^a   Scherbaka, Rita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LATVIA   (Latvia)

Author keywords

Ethanol; Fermentation; Levan; Osmolality; Sugar beet juice; Syrup; Zymomonas mobilis

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ALCOHOL PRODUCTION; CULTURE MEDIUM; DIFFUSION; DISTILLATION; EUROPE; FERMENTATION; FRUCTOSE; LEVAN; MAGNESIUM; OSMOLALITY; PHOSPHORUS; POLYMER; POTASSIUM; SUCROSE; SUGAR BEET; SUGAR PRODUCTION; SYRUP; YEAST;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BETA VULGARIS SUBSP. VULGARIS; ZYMOMONAS MOBILIS;

EID: 0032925996     PISSN: 08905436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08905439609549964     Document Type: Article

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