Characterization of red pigment from Monascus in submerged culture red pigment from Monascus Purpureus

Journal of Applied Sciences Research

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2102-2108

  Chatterjee, Sandipan ^a   Maity, Sharmistha ^a   Chattopadhyay, Pritam ^a   Sarkar, Angshuman ^a   Laskar, Subrata ^b   Sen, Sukanta Kumar ^a  

^a VISVA BHARATI UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BURDWAN   (India)

Author keywords

Food colorant; Monascus; Optimization; Pigment characterization; Submerged culture

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949524565     PISSN: 1816157X     EISSN: 1819544X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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