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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FOOD MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 190, Issue -, Pages 97-104Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijfoodmicro.2014.08.024
Keywords
Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Flocculation; Ale and lager behaviors; Cachaca
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- Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (CNPq) [550584/2011-0, 304815/2012-3]
- Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais (FAPEMIG) [APQ-00263-10]
- Fundacao de Capacitacao de Pessoal de Nivel Superior (CAPES/Brazil) [PNPD 2755/2011]
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In cachaca production, the use of yeast cells as starters with predictable flocculation behavior facilitates the cell recovery at the end of each fermentation cycle. Therefore, the aim of this work was to explain the behavior of cachaca yeast strains in fermentation vats containing sugarcane through the determination of biochemical and molecular parameters associated with flocculation phenotypes. By analyzing thirteen cachaca yeast strains isolated from different distilleries, our results demonstrated that neither classic biochemical measurements (e.g., percentage of flocculation, EDTA sensitivity, cell surface hydrophobicity, and sugar residues on the cell wall) nor modern molecular approaches, such as polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and real-time PCR (q-PCR), were sufficient to distinctly classify the cachaca yeast strains according to their flocculation behavior. It seems that flocculation is indeed a strain-specific phenomenon that is difficult to explain and/or categorize by the available methodologies. (C) 2014 Published by Elsevier B.V.
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