A taxogenomic view of the genus <i>Torulaspora</i>: an expansion from ten to twenty-two species.

ABSTRACT: The yeast genus Torulaspora (subphylum Saccharomycotina, family Saccharomycetaceae) is mostly known from its type species, T. delbrueckii, a frequent colonizer of wine and sourdough bread fermentations. The genus currently contains 10 species that are typically found in various natural terrestrial environments in temperate and tropical climates. Here we employ taxogenomic analyses to investigate a large collection of Torulaspora strains obtained in multiple surveys we carried out in Asia, Australasia, North America, South America, and Europe, and to which we added several strains maintained in culture collections. Our analyses detected twelve novel species that are formally described here, thereby more than doubling the species diversity of Torulaspora

SUBMITTER: Silva MR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12308288 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature