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Quest for wine yeasts—An old story revisited

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Numerous studies have described the yeast biota of grapes, and grape must in order to understand better the succession of yeasts during fermentation of wine. The origin of the wine yeasts has been rather controversial. By using more elaborate isolation methods, classical genetic analysis and electrophoretic karyotyping of monosporic clones, with this study, credible proof now exists that the vineyard is the primary source for the wine yeasts and that strains found on the grapes can be followed through the fermentation process.

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    RK Mortimer

  3. University of Potenza, Italy

    P Romano & G Suzzi

  4. University of Florence, Italy

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Török, T., Mortimer, R., Romano, P. et al. Quest for wine yeasts—An old story revisited. Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology 17, 303–313 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01574705

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