The level of substrate utilization of all the strains was highest on D-fructose and D-Glucose for sugars, followed by L-histidine and L-Aspartic Acid for amino acids. By contrast, D-raffinose and stachyose were the lowest utilized sugars, and D-serine was the lowest metabolized amino acid....
A further reason that led us to use the NPC test is that this statistical methodology, free from distributional assumptions, allows us to perform stratified analyses. As it is known, the Non-Parametric Combination (NPC) test represents a permutation solution for several multidimensional hypothesis-...
Enzyme activities related to the bacterial quantity were also studied, and enzyme activity was measured using a kit (SpectraMax M4, Silicon Valley, CA, USA). Sucrase activity assays were based on the ability to catalyze the degradation of sucrose to produce reducing sugars, which can produce brow...