A study of the microbial diversity associated with submerged
cassava fermentation showed that different bacterial species are
involved in the fermentation and confirmed the major contribution
of LAB to cassava fermentation. The predominant LAB species
derived from fermenting cassava in this study was L. plantarum and
confirms earlier investigations in which L. plantarum had been
shown to be a dominant species in cassava fermentation (Amoa-
Awua et al., 1996; Kostinek et al., 2007). Apart from Lactobacillus,