Microbiota dynamics and diversity at different stages of industrial processing of cocoa beans into cocoa powder

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2904-2913

  Lima, Lídia J R ^a   van der Velpen, Vera ^a   Wolkers Rooijackers, Judith ^a   Kamphuis, Henri J ^b   Zwietering, Marcel H ^a   Rob Nout, M J ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Quality and Regulatory   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA GENE; AEROBIC MICROORGANISMS; BACILLUS LICHENIFORMIS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL COMMUNITY; CLONE LIBRARY; COCOA BEANS; COCOA POWDER; DERIVED PRODUCTS; DETECTION LIMITS; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; GENETIC DIVERSITY; GENETIC HETEROGENEITIES; GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; HEAT-RESISTANT SPORES; INDUSTRIAL PROCESSING; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; MICROBIOLOGICAL METHODS; MICROBIOTAS; MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION; SUBTILIS;

BACTERIOLOGY; CALCINATION; ELECTROPHORESIS; GENES; HEAT RESISTANCE; MICROORGANISMS; RNA;

COCOA;

BACTERIAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

COCOA; FOOD PROCESSING; HETEROGENEITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SAMPLING; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

AEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BIODIVERSITY; BIOTA; CACAO; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DNA SEQUENCE; FOOD HANDLING; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY;

BACTERIA, AEROBIC; BIODIVERSITY; BIOTA; CACAO; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FOOD HANDLING; INDUSTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

BACILLACEAE; BACILLUS LICHENIFORMIS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROCOCCACEAE; FUNGI; PSEUDOMONADACEAE; THEOBROMA CACAO;

EID: 84861114151     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.07691-11     Document Type: Article

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