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The alcohol dehydrogenase system in the xylose-fermenting yeast Candida maltosa

Yuping Lin1, Peng He, Qinhong Wang

  • 1Centre of Microbial Biotechnology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.

Plos One
|July 30, 2010
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