A genus-specific PCR method for differentiation between Leuconostoc and Weissella and its application in identification of heterofermentative lactic acid bacteria from coffee fermentation

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 286, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 222-226

  Schillinger, Ulrich ^a   Boehringer, Benjamin ^a   Wallbaum, Sabrina ^a   Caroline, Lily ^a   Gonfa, Almaz ^b   Huch, Melanie ^a   Holzapfel, Wilhelm H ^a   Franz, Charles M A P ^a  

^a FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF NUTRITION AND FOOD   (Germany)

^b ETHIOPIAN PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Coffee fermentation; Genus specific PCR; Leuconostoc; Weissella

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; COFFEE; FERMENTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; LACTIC ACID BACTERIUM; LEUCONOSTOC; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WEISSELLA;

COFFEE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FERMENTATION; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; GENES, RRNA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

LEUCONOSTOC; WEISSELLA;

EID: 49749102438     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2008.01286.x     Document Type: Article

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