Open AccessFermentation of tartrate enantiomers by anaerobic bacteria, and description of two new species of strict anaerobes, Ruminococcus pasteurii and Ilyobacter tartaricus
Author(s) -
Bernhard Schink
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
archives of microbiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.648
H-Index - 102
eISSN - 1432-072X
pISSN - 0302-8933
DOI - 10.1007/bf00408388
Subject(s) - tartrate , fermentation , acetogenesis , methanogenesis , biology , food science , bacteria , microbiology and biotechnology , biochemistry , chemistry , genetics
Enumerations of tartrate-fermenting anaerobic bacteria with l-, d-, and m-tartrate as substrates revealed that l-tartrate fermenters outnumbered d- and m-tartrate fermenters by one to three orders of magnitude in all three anoxic environments studied.
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