Table 2.

Various LAB and non‐LAB screened for riboflavin production

Riboflavin production strategy	Organism	Source	References
Genetic engineering/exposure to purine/toxic riboflavin analogue	Microbes screened for enhanced riboflavin production
	L. lactis	Yoghurt	LeBlanc and colleagues (2005)
	L. lactis subsp. cremoris strain NZ9000		Burgess and colleagues (2004)
	L. fermentum MTCC8711		Jayashree and colleagues (2011)
	L. plantarum		Burgess and colleagues (2006)
	L. mesenteroids		Burgess and colleagues (2006)
	P. freudenreichii		Burgess and colleagues (2006)
Exposure to toxic riboflavin analogue	L. plantarum, L. mesenteroides and L. fermentum	Sourdough	Russo and colleagues (2014)
	L. plantarum CRL725	Dairy products	Valle and colleagues (2014)
	L. plantarum	Durum wheat flour	Capozzi and colleagues (2011)
Natural	Microbes screened for natural riboflavin production
	L. acidophilus	Curd and cheese	Guru and Viswanathan, 2013
	Bacillus clausii, B. subtilis, B. cereus IP 5832, L. rhamnosus ATCC 53103	Probiotic formulations	Salvetti et al., 2003
	L. fermentum, L. plantarum and L. mucosae	Human faeces and fermented bamboo shoots	Thakur and Tomar, 2015
Genetic engineering/exposure to purine/toxic riboflavin analogue	Commercial producers
	A. gossypii		Perkins and colleagues (1999)
	Candida famata		Schallmey and colleagues (2004)
	Bacillus subtilis		Stahmann and colleagues (2000)