| acetone, isopropanol, and butanol production by clostridium beijerinckii (syn. clostridium butylicum) and clostridium aurantibutyricum. | thirty-four strains representing 15 species of anaerobic bacteria were screened for acetone, isopropanol, and n-butanol (solvent) production. under our culture conditions, several strains of clostridium beijerinckii and c. aurantibutyricum produced at least 40 mm n-butanol (c. acetobutylicum strains produced up to 41 mm n-butanol under similar conditions). both solvent-producing and non-solvent-producing strains of c. beijerinckii have high dna homology with a reference strain of c. beijerinckii ... | 1983 | 16346237 |