Operating bioreactors for microbial exopolysaccharide production

Critical Reviews in Biotechnology

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 170-185

  Seviour, Robert J ^a   McNeil, Brian ^b   Fazenda, Mariana L ^b   Harvey, Linda M ^b  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

EPS; Fermenters; Fungi; Rheology; Scale Up; Xanthan

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PROPERTIES; CONTROLLED CONDITIONS; CULTURE MEDIA; CURDLAN; EPS; EXOPOLYSACCHARIDES; GLUCANS; HIGH VISCOSITIES; LARGE SCALE PRODUCTIONS; PULLULANS; SCALE UP; XANTHAN;

ELASTICITY; FUNGI; RHEOLOGY; VISCOSITY;

FERMENTERS;

BETA GLUCAN; CURDLAN; EXOPOLYSACCHARIDE; PULLULAN; XANTHAN;

BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOREACTOR; FERMENTATION; FLOW KINETICS; MICROORGANISM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; XANTHOMONAS;

BETA-GLUCANS; BIOREACTORS; CULTURE MEDIA; FERMENTATION; FUNGI; GLUCANS; INDUSTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; RHEOLOGY; VISCOSITY;

FUNGI;

EID: 79952654291     PISSN: 07388551     EISSN: 15497801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/07388551.2010.505909     Document Type: Review

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