Strains synthesizing extracellular polysaccharide dextran on a medium with 10% sucrose read more were isolated from different kind of vegetables (cabbage, cucumber, cauliflower, kohlrabi, carrot, green beans, red beet, pepper, eggplant, radish).Carbohydrate fermentation was examined using a bioMerieux API 50 CHL test system.Among micropopulations with characteristic spherical cell morphology, 94.
9% belonged to Leuconostoc mesenteroides subsp.mesenteroides weboost splitter and 5.1% were identified as Leuconostoc mesenteroides subsp.
dextranicum.According to fermentation of pentoses L.mesenteroides strains were divided into three groups with a certain number of biotypes; 10 strains were tested on acid production.