Enforced Mutualism Leads to Improved Cooperative Behavior between Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Lactobacillus plantarum.

ABSTRACT: Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Lactobacillus plantarum are responsible for alcoholic and malolactic fermentation, respectively. Successful completion of both fermentations is essential for many styles of wine, and an understanding of how these species interact with each other, as well as the development of compatible pairings of these species, will help to manage the process. However, targeted improvements of species interactions are difficult to perform, in part because of the chemical and biological complexity of natural grape juice. Synthetic ecological systems reduce this complexity and can overcome these difficulties. In such synthetic systems, mutualistic growth of different species can be enforced through the reciprocal exchange of essential nutrients. Here, we implemented a novel app

SUBMITTER: du Toit SC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7464542 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature