Research Article

Effects of Fermentation Temperature and Aeration on Production of Natural Isoamyl Acetate by Williopsis saturnus var. saturnus

Table 1

Viable yeast cells 107 cells mL−1) at different fermentation conditions.

Fermentation conditionsTime (h)
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15°C1.0 ± 0.122.9 ± 0.144.65 ± 0.106.25 ± 0.176.65 ± 0.207.25 ± 0.235.8 ± 0.11
25°C1.0 ± 0.227.18 ± 0.0410.3 ± 0.358.95 ± 0.1010.2 ± 0.109.35 ± 0.215.58 ± 0.17
Anaerobic1.0 ± 0.247.35 ± 0.3110.3 ± 0.4410.2 ± 0.3410.45 ± 0.108.58 ± 0.22NT*
Semi-aerobic1.0 ± 0.1817.5 ± 0.5428.4 ± 0.4924.6 ± 0.4425.8 ± 0.5124.6 ± 0.3323.6 ± 0.21
Aerobic1.0 ± 0.1621.75 ± 0.3520 ± 0.1522.1 ± 0.1320 ± 0.22NT*NT*

NT: not tested.