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Identification and characterization of Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains isolated from West African sorghum beer.
Yeast (Chichester, England) - 1 Aug 2001
van der Aa Kühle A, Jesperen L, Glover R L, Diawara B, Jakobsen M
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The occurrence and characterization of yeasts isolated from sorghum beer produced in Ghana and Burkina Faso, West Africa, were investigated. The yeasts involved in the fermentations were found to consist of Saccharomyces spp. almost exclusively. Of the isolates investigated, 45% were identified as Saccharomyces cerevisiae, whereas more than half of the isolates (53%) had physiological properties atypical of S....
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