Abstract
Both free and immobilized cells of Sporolactobacillus cellulosolvens, in continuous culture on molasses (50 g sugar 1-1) at 40°C, had maximum lactic acid productivities of 0.03 and 0.06 mol l-1 h, at dilution rates of 0.27 and 0.25 h-1, respectively.
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S.S. Kanwar is with the Department of Biotechnology, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar-143 005, India; B.S. Chadha is with the Department of Microbiology, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar-143 005, India. H.K. Tewari and V.K. Sharma are with the Department of Microbiology, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana-141 004, India.
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Kanwar, S.S., Chadha, B.S., Tewari, H.K. et al. Continuous production of lactic acid from molasses by free and immobilized Sporolactobacillus cellulosolvens . World Journal of Microbiology & Biotechnology 11, 687–688 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00361019
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00361019