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Strain selection in carbon-limited chemostats affects reproducibility of Thermoanaerobacter ethanolicus fermentations
1Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Applied and Environmental Microbiology
|February 1, 1992
Abstract:
We found that the reproducibility of chemostat trials can be improved by using chemostat-adapted strains. Our experimental findings are consistent with adaptation that involves an improvement in culture fitness and an alteration of the fermentation genotype.