Development and use of a quantum dot probe to track multiple yeast strains in mixed culture

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Gustafsson, Frida S ^a   Whiteside, Matthew D ^a,c   Jiranek, Vladimir ^a,b   Durall, Daniel M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUANTUM DOT;

CLASSIFICATION; FERMENTATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; YEAST;

FERMENTATION; QUANTUM DOTS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; YEASTS;

EID: 84923344334     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep06971     Document Type: Article

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