Culture-independent microbial techniques in dairy microbiology: The state of the art Baltasar Mayo, Marta Marzotto, Ana Belén Flórez and Sandra Torriani
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Sugar catabolism and lactic acid production Gaspar Pérez-Martínez, Vicente Monedero and María J. Yebra
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Citrate metabolism and aroma compound production in lactic acid bacteria Nieves García Quintans, Víctor Blancato, Guillermo Repizo, Christian Magni and Paloma López
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Proteolysis and amino acid catabolism in lactic acid bacteria María Fernández, Miguel A. Alvarez and Manuel Zúñiga
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Functionality of exopolysaccharides produced by lactic acid bacteria Patricia Ruas-Madiedo, Analía Abraham, Fernanda Mozzi and Clara G. de los Reyes-Gavilán
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Antimicrobial lactic acid bacteria metabolites Mercedes Maqueda and Juan Miguel Rodríguez
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Dairy bacteriophages and bacteriophage resistance Ana G. Binetti, Jorge A. Reinheimer and Miguel A. Álvarez
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Production of vaccines and other bioactive compounds Vicente Monedero and Gaspar Pérez-Martínez
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Engineering and re-routing of the metabolism of lactic acid bacteria Paula Gaspar, Ana Rute Neves, Helena Santos, Pilar Fernández de Palencia, Carmen Peláez and Teresa Requena
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Analysis and practical application of LAB genomes Baltasar Mayo, Douwe van Sinderen, Marco Ventura, Pablo Álvarez-Martín and Mary O’Connell-Motherway
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Functional dairy products for the future Miguel Gueimonde, Abelardo Margolles and Seppo Salminen
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