RETRACTED: Microbial production of dihydroxyacetone

This article has been retracted. Please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy).Reason: This article has been retracted at the request of the editor as the authors have plagiarised part of several papers that had already appeared in several journals. One of the conditions of submission of a paper for publication is that authors declare explicitly that their work is original and has not appeared in a publication elsewhere. Re-use of any data should be appropriately cited. As such this article represents a severe abuse of the scientific publishing system. The scientific community takes a very strong view on this matter and we apologise to readers of the journal that this was not detected during the submission process.From a limited, non-exhaustive check of the text, several elements of the text had been plagiarised from the following list of sources:Dihydroxyacetone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaStateMaster - Encyclopedia: Dihydroxyacetone