Yeast flocculation: What brewers should know

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 197-205

  Verstrepen, Kevin J ^a   Derdelinckx, G ^a   Verachtert, H ^a   Delvaux, F R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOCCULATION; YEAST;

ALCOHOL PRODUCTION; BEER; BREWING; CELL COMPOSITION; CELL WALL; FLO1 GENE; FLO11 GENE; FLO5 GENE; FLO8 GENE; FLOCCULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PH MEASUREMENT; PROCESS MONITORING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SHORT SURVEY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; WINE; YEAST; YEAST CELL;

SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0038702596     PISSN: 01757598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00253-002-1200-8     Document Type: Short Survey

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