✦ LIBER ✦
L-malic acid production by an albino strain ofMonascus araneosus
✍ Scribed by S. Lumyong; F. Tomita
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1993
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 154 KB
- Volume
- 9
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1573-0972
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✦ Synopsis
An albino mutant was isolated after treating
Monascus araneosus AI-W9087 with IV-methyl-IV'-nitro-AJnitrosoguanidine.
All other physiological and biochemical characteristics were retained. The mutant did not produce any pigment but produced L-malic acid at 28 g/l, compared with 20 g/l by the parent strain, in media containing 10% (w/v) glucose after incubation under aerobic conditions for 5 days at 37'C.