A thermodynamic description of microbial growth and product formation

The Metabolic Pathway Engineering Handbook: Fundamentals

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 11-1-11-20

  Heijnen, Joseph J ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

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