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The Genus Lactococcus

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The Prokaryotes

Introduction

The importance of lactococci in the development of basic microbiology, genetics, molecular biology, general microbial biochemistry, food science, and biotechnology has been profound. Their present-day large-scale use in industrial fermentations, especially in the manufacture of dairy products has particular significance.

The first studies of the lactococci were by Joseph Lister (Lister, 1873), who was attempting to prove Pasteur’s germ theory of fermentative changes. In Lister’s experiments with boiled milk as a nutrient medium, he obtained by chance the first pure bacterial culture. It is worthwhile to recall in the context of this handbook his original discussion of this discovery, marking the dawn of bacterial taxonomy:

Admitting then that we had here to deal with only one bacterium, it presents such peculiarities both morphologically and physiologically as to justify us, I think, in regarding it a definite and recognizable species for which I venture to suggest the...

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Teuber, M., Geis, A. (2006). The Genus Lactococcus. In: Dworkin, M., Falkow, S., Rosenberg, E., Schleifer, KH., Stackebrandt, E. (eds) The Prokaryotes. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-30744-3_7

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