Biotechnology of microbial polysaccharides in food

Food Biotechnology, Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 193-220

  Sutherland, Ian W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

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