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Kuo Zhao1, Jianmin Liu2, Cong Gao1

  • 1State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China; International Joint Laboratory on Food Safety, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China.

Advances in Applied Microbiology
|August 6, 2022
PubMed

Keywords:
Feed amino acidMetabolic pathway fluxMicrobial cell factorySupply of precursorsTransporter engineering

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