Starter cultures: General aspects

Cheese: Chemistry, Physics and Microbiology

Volumn 1, Issue C, 2004, Pages 123-147

  Parente, E ^a,b   Cogan, T M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

^b ANIMAL AND GRASSLAND RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CENTRE   (Ireland)

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EID: 33746102645     PISSN: 1874558X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1874-558X(04)80065-4     Document Type: Chapter

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