ABSTRACT
I. Introduction ..............................................................................................152 II. Plasmids and Plasmid-Linked Traits in Starter-Culture Bacteria ............153
A. Important Characteristics of Bacterial Plasmids .............................153 B. Some Characteristics of Small (ca. 10 kb) and Large
(over 10 to ca. 150 kb) Plasmids .....................................................154 C. Presence of Plasmids in Some Starter-Culture Bacteria .................154 D. Phenotype Assignment to a Plasmid ...............................................154 E. Plasmid-Linked Traits in Starter-Culture Bacteria ..........................155 F. Cryptic Plasmids ..............................................................................156 G. Plasmid Replication .........................................................................156 H. Plasmid Mapping and Sequencing ..................................................157
