Efficient calcium lactate production by fermentation coupled with crystallization-based in situ product removal

Ke Xu1, Ping Xu1

  • 1State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, and School of Life Sciences & Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, People's Republic of China.

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