PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - C. G. Edwards
AU  - K. M. Haag
AU  - M. D. Collins
TI  - Identification and Characterization of Two Lactic Acid Bacteria Associated With Sluggish/Stuck Fermentations
AID  - 10.5344/ajev.1998.49.4.445
DP  - 1998 Jan 01
TA  - American Journal of Enology and Viticulture
PG  - 445--448
VI  - 49
IP  - 4
4099  - http://www.ajevonline.org/content/49/4/445.short
4100  - http://www.ajevonline.org/content/49/4/445.full
SO  - Am J Enol Vitic.1998 Jan 01; 49
AB  - Two strains of lactic acid bacteria previously found to slow some alcoholic fermentations were identified using biochemical and genetic analyses. Strains YH-24 and YH-37 were Gram positive cocci, produced acid and gas from glucose, did not form ammonia from arginine or mannitol from fructose, and were catalase negative. These traits support genetic analyses which concluded that the strains were Leuconostoc oenos. YH-24 and YH-37 grew in modified Rogosa broth adjusted to pH 3.5 or above but did not grow in media below pH 3.1. Sulfur dioxide retarded growth up to 0.42 mg/L molecular SO2 with no growth at 0.56 mg/L.