- Kluyveromyces marxianus
Taxobox
name = "Kluyveromyces marxianus"
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regnum =Fungi
division =Ascomycota
phylum =Ascomycota
subphylum =Saccharomycotina
classis =Saccharomycetes
ordo =Saccharomycetales
familia =Saccharomycetaceae
genus = "Kluyveromyces "
species = "K. marxianus"
binomial = "Kluyveromyces marxianus"
binomial_authority = Van der Walt, 1971 [Van der Walt, Bothalia 10(3): 418 (1971)]
synonyms = "Kluyveromyces fragilis"
"Kluyveromyces cicerisporus"
"Candida pseudotropicalis"
"Candida kefyr""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 thelactase enzyme similar to the use of other fungi such as those in the genusAspergillus .I. Seyis and N. Aksoz: Production of Lactase by Trichoderma sp., Food Technol. Biotechnol. 42 (2) 121–124 (2004) [http://public.carnet.hr/ftbrfd/42-121.pdf Free text.] ]ee also
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Kluyveromyces "References
External links
* [http://www.indexfungorum.org/Names/namesrecord.asp?RecordId=316062 K. marxianus at Index Fungorum]
* [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Info&id=4911&lvl=3&lin=f&keep=1&srchmode=1&unlock K. marxianus at NCBI Taxonomy browser]
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