Note 121 — Chapter VI · THE PHYSIOLOGICAL THEORY OF FERMENTATION.
Frank Faulkner translation
We find in M. Raulin’s Note, already quoted, that “the minimum ratio between the weight of sugar and the weight of organized matter, that is, the weight of fungoid growth which it helps to form, may be expressed 10/3·2 = 3·1.” Jules Raulin, Études chimiques sur la végétation. Recherches sur le développement d’une mucédinée dans un milieu artificiel, p. 192, Paris, 1870. We have seen, in the case of yeast, that this ratio may be as low as 4/1.