Xylitol Production From D-Xylose by Facultative Anaerobic Bacteria

Seventeen species of facultative anaerobic bacteria belonging to three genera (Serratia, Cellulomonas, and Corynebacterium) were screened for the production of xylitol; a sugar alcohol used as a sweetener in the pharmaceutical and food industries. A chromogenic assay of both solid and liquid cultur...

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Main Author: Rangaswamy, Sendil
Other Authors: Biological Systems Engineering
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/26385
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-03082003-172558/