Russian Federation
The article is devoted to the estimation of the karst cave potential as a source of strains for food biotechnology. It is shown that microscopic fungi in the cold karst caves are the psychrophiles and can be used as enzyme producers for raw material low-temperature processing in food industry.
psychrophilic enzymes, psychrophilic fungi, karst caves, food biotechnology, low-temperature biotechnology
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