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Significant improvements to the economic feasibility of acetone-butanol fermentation could be envisaged if low cost organic acid mixtures were used as co-substrates with sugars, during growth of Clostridium acetobutylicum.
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Vasconcelos, I., Soucaille, P., Goma, G. (1992). Bioconversion of Biogenic and Abiogenic Volatile Fatty Acids Into the Corresponding Alcohols by Clostridium Acetobutylicum . In: Vardar-Sukan, F., Sukan, Ş.S. (eds) Recent Advances in Biotechnology. NATO ASI Series, vol 210. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2468-3_52
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