Citric Acid

Comprehensive Biotechnology, Second Edition

Volumn 3, Issue , 2011, Pages 135-142

  Kirimura, K ^a   Honda, Y ^a   Hattori, T ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aspergillus niger; Candida lipolytica (Yarrowia lipolytica); Citric acid; Metabolic engineering; Protoplast fusion; Solid fermentation process; Submerged fermentation process; Surface fermentation process; Tricarboxylic acid cycle

Indexed keywords

EID: 85012851932     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-08-088504-9.00169-0     Document Type: Chapter

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