Complex microbiota of a Chinese "Fen" liquor fermentation starter (Fen-Daqu), revealed by culture-dependent and culture-independent methods

Food Microbiology

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 293-300

  Zheng, Xiao Wei ^a,b   Yan, Zheng ^b   Han, Bei Zhong ^b   Zwietering, Marcel H ^a   Samson, Robert A ^c   Boekhout, Teun ^c   Robert Nout, M J ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CBS KNAW FUNGAL BIODIVERSITY CENTRE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Amylolytic starter; Daqu; DGGE; Fungi; Microbial diversity

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; FUNGAL DNA; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; EVALUATION; FERMENTATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METAGENOME; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WINE; YEAST;

BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, FUNGAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; FERMENTATION; METAGENOME; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; WINE; YEASTS;

ABSIDIA; ASPERGILLUS; BACILLUS LICHENIFORMIS; BACILLUS MEGATERIUM; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTER AEROGENES; FUNGI; LACTOBACILLUS; LACTOBACILLUS DELBRUECKII; LACTOBACILLUS DELBRUECKII SUBSP. LACTIS; LACTOBACILLUS SANFRANCISCENSIS; MUCOR; PENICILLIUM; PICHIA; RHIZOMUCOR; RHIZOPUS; SACCHAROMYCOPSIS FIBULIGERA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS SAPROPHYTICUS; WEISSELLA; WEISSELLA CIBARIA; WEISSELLA CONFUSA;

EID: 84860991058     PISSN: 07400020     EISSN: 10959998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fm.2012.03.008     Document Type: Article

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