The role of the surface smear microbiome in the development of defective smear on surface-ripened red-smear cheese.

ABSTRACT: The complex smear microbiota colonizing the surface of red-smear cheese fundamentally impacts the ripening process, appearance and shelf life of cheese. To decipher the prokaryotic composition of the cheese smear microbiome, the surface of a semi-hard surface ripened cheese was studied post-ripening by culture-based and culture-independent molecular approaches. The aim was to detect potential bacterial alterations in the composition of the cheese smear microbiota resulting from cheese storage in vacuum film-prepackaging, which is often accompanied by the development of a surface smear defect. Next-generation sequencing of amplified 16S rRNA gene fragments revealed an unexpected high diversity of a total of 132 different genera from the domains Bacteria and Archaea on the chee

SUBMITTER: Ritschard JS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6613336 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature