Kluyveromyces marxianus
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| Kluyveromyces marxianus | ||||||||||||||||
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| Kluyveromyces marxianus Van der Walt, 1971[1] | ||||||||||||||||
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Kluyveromyces fragilis |
Kluyveromyces marxianus is a species of yeast in the genus Kluyveromyces, and is the sexual form (teleomorph) of Candida kefyr. K. marxianus is used commercially to produce the lactase enzyme similar to the use of other fungi such as those in the genus Aspergillus.[2]
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References
- ↑ Van der Walt, Bothalia 10(3): 418 (1971)
- ↑ I. Seyis and N. Aksoz: Production of Lactase by Trichoderma sp., Food Technol. Biotechnol. 42 (2) 121–124 (2004)Free text.