Overview of citric acid production from Aspergillus niger

Frontiers in Life Science

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 271-283

  Show, Pau Loke ^a   Oladele, Kehinde Opeyemi ^a   Siew, Qi Yan ^a   Aziz Zakry, Fitri Abdul ^b   Lan, John Chi Wei ^c   Ling, Tau Chuan ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM MALAYSIA CAMPUS   (Malaysia)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CROP SCIENCE   (Malaysia)

^c YUAN ZE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Aspergillus niger; citric acid; fermentation; glucose; microbial

Indexed keywords

ASPERGILLUS NIGER;

EID: 84938979412     PISSN: 21553769     EISSN: 21553777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/21553769.2015.1033653     Document Type: Note

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