Unraveling potential enzymes and their functional role in fine cocoa beans fermentation using temporal shotgun metagenomics.

ABSTRACT: Cocoa beans fermentation is a spontaneous process, essential for the generation of quality starting material for fine chocolate production. The understanding of this process has been studied by the application of high-throughput sequencing technologies, which grants a better assessment of the different microbial taxa and their genes involved in this microbial succession. The present study used shotgun metagenomics to determine the enzyme-coding genes of the microbiota found in two different groups of cocoa beans varieties during the fermentation process. The statistical evaluation of the most abundant genes in each group and time studied allowed us to identify the potential metabolic pathways involved in the success of the different microorganisms. The results showed that, albeit the disti

SUBMITTER: Lima COC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9671152 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature