brewinhard wrote:Lacto is a weak bacteria and hates oxygen
Lichtersnatch wrote:I've read that on homebrewing forums as well, but everything else I've read says that they're facultatively anaerobic IE. http://genome.jgi-psf.org/lacde/lacde.home.html
The growth rate of Lactobacillus and Pediococcus species is enhanced anaerobically. Although not requiring oxygen, lactic acid bacteria tolerate oxygen. Recent work (Marty-Teysset et. al., 2000) has shown aerobically grown L. delbrueckii subsp. bulgaricus to reduce oxygen and to accumulate hydrogen peroxide, an oxidative stress which triggers early entry into stationary phase. This results in a concomitant reduction in biomass yield and, from the perspective of growth on agar plates, smaller colonies.
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