Fermented Legumes: Soybean and Non-Soybean Products

Fermented Foods and Beverages of the World

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 191-224

  Nagai, Toshirou ^a   Tamang, Jyoti Prakash ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b SIKKIM UNIVERSITY   (India)

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DOI: 10.1201/EBK1420094954-10     Document Type: Chapter

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