Lactic acid bacteria

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L. plantarum is neither amylolytic nor proteolytic... or maybe just certain strains?[1]


The beer-spoiling lactobacilli belong to the following species:[2]

  • L. casei (42.7% of the microorganisms examined) with the subspecies casei and fusiformis
  • L. brevis (37.9 %)
  • L. coryniformis (9.1%) with the subspecies coryniformis and torquens
  • L. buchneri (7.3 %)
  • "L. brevis var. lindneri" (2.1 %)
  • L. plantarum (0.9 %)


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