Grapes have a complex microbial ecology including filamentous fungi, yeasts and bacteria
with different physiological characteristics and effects upon wine production. Some species …

Acetic acid bacteria (AAB) comprise a group of gram-negative or gram-variable, ellipsoidal
to rod-shaped cells that have an obligate aerobic metabolism with oxygen as the terminal …

Multi‐walled carbon nanotubes (CNTs) can affect plant phenotype and the composition of
soil microbiota. Tomato plants grown in soil supplemented with CNTs produce two times …

Kefir grains are a unique symbiotic association of different microrganisms, mainly lactic acid
bacteria, yeasts and occasionally acetic acid bacteria, cohabiting in a natural …

The Ghanaian cocoa bean heap fermentation process was studied through a multiphasic
approach, encompassing both microbiological and metabolite target analyses. A culture …

Export of cocoa beans is of great economic importance in Ghana and several other tropical
countries. Raw cocoa has an astringent unpleasant taste and a spontaneous fermentation is …

ABSTRACT PCR amplification of pure bacterial DNA is vital to the study of bacterial
interactions with corals. Commonly used Bacteria-specific primers 8F and 27F paired with …

The production of vinegar depends on an oxidation process that is mainly performed by
acetic acid bacteria. Despite the different methods of vinegar production (more or less …

In the last two decades major changes have occurred in how microbial ecologists study
microbial communities. Limitations associated with traditional culture-based methods have …

Susceptibility to 12 antibiotics was tested in 75 unrelated lactic acid bacteria strains of wine
origin of the following species: 38 Lactobacillus plantarum, 3 Lactobacillus hilgardii, 2 …