Research Article
Lactic Acid Yield Using Different Bacterial Strains, Its Purification, and Polymerization through Ring-Opening Reactions
Table 2
Production of D- and L-lactic acid by bacterial strain.
| (g L−1) | L. bulgaricus | Lc. lactis | L. plantarum | L. delbrueckii | L. delbrueckii lactis |
| D-lactic | 12.35 | 15.40 | 23.87 | 23.44 | 33.42 | L-lactic | 15.55 | 14.89 | 22.11 | 27.49 | 7.60 | Concentration | 27.90 | 30.29 | 45.98 | 50.93 | 41.02 | Yield* | 0.52 | 0.55 | 0.94 | 0.99 | 0.93 |
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Yield (grams/gram) of lactic acid from lactose.
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