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A newly isolated sucrose-tolerant, lactic acid bacterium, Lactobacillus sp. strain FCP2, was grown on sugar-cane juice (125 g sucrose l−1, 8 g glucose l−1 and 6 g fructose l−1) for 5 days and produced 104 g lactic acid l−1 with 90% yield. A higher yield (96%) and productivity (2.8 g l−1 h−1) were obtained when strain FCP2 was cultured on 3% w/v (25 g sucrose l−1, 2 g glucose l−1 and 1 g fructose l−1) sugar-cane juice for 10 h. Various cheap nitrogen sources such as silk worm larvae, beer yeast autolysate and shrimp wastes were also used as a substitute to yeast extract.
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A part of this study was supported by the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO).
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Timbuntam, W., Sriroth, K. & Tokiwa, Y. Lactic acid production from sugar-cane juice by a newly isolated Lactobacillus sp.. Biotechnol Lett 28, 811–814 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10529-006-9003-0
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