Ecology and Evolutionary Biology as Frameworks to Study Wine Fermentations
Winemaking has leveraged microbiology to enhance wine quality, typically by engineering and inoculating individual yeast strains with desirable traits. However, yeast strains do not grow alone during wine fermentation, rather they are embedded in diverse and evolving microbial communities exhibiting...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2025 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) |
| Repositorio: | Docta Complutense |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/120390 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/120390 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | 579.67 663.1 663.2 581.5 575.8 Food biotechnology Functional diversity Microbe: microbe interactions Microbial communities Microbial diversity Microbiología (Biología) Tecnología de los alimentos Ecología (Biología) Evolución 2414 Microbiología 3309 Tecnología de Los Alimentos 3309.29 Vino 3309.92 Bioquímica y Microbiología de Los Procesos Fermentativos |
| Sumario: | Winemaking has leveraged microbiology to enhance wine quality, typically by engineering and inoculating individual yeast strains with desirable traits. However, yeast strains do not grow alone during wine fermentation, rather they are embedded in diverse and evolving microbial communities exhibiting complex ecological dynamics. Understanding and predicting the interplay between the yeast community over the course of the species succession and the chemical matrix of wine can benefit from recognising that wine, like all microbial ecosystems, is subject to general ecological and evolutionary rules. In this piece, we outline how conceptual and methodological frameworks from community ecology and evolutionary biology can assist wine yeast researchers in improving wine fermentation processes by understanding the mechanisms governing population dynamics, predicting and engineering these important microcosms, and unlocking the genetic potential for wine strain development. |
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