Characteristics of the Leuconostoc mesenteroides subsp. mesenteroides strains from fresh vegetables

Characteristics of the Leuconostoc mesenteroides subsp. mesenteroides strains from fresh vegetables

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Motorcycle Strains synthesizing extracellular polysaccharide dextran on a medium with 10% sucrose were isolated from different kind of vegetables (cabbage, cucumber, cauliflower, kohlrabi, carrot, green beans, red beet, pepper, eggplant, radish).Carbohydrate fermentation was examined using a bioMerieux API 50 CHL test system.Among micropopulations with characteristic spherical cell morphology, 94.

9% belonged to Leuconostoc mesenteroides subsp.mesenteroides and 5.1% were identified as Leuconostoc mesenteroides subsp.

dextranicum.According to fermentation of pentoses TIES L.mesenteroides strains were divided into three groups with a certain number of biotypes; 10 strains were tested on acid production.