Isolation and characterization of brewer's yeast variants with improved fermentation performance under high-gravity conditions

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 815-824

  Blieck, Lies ^a,b   Toye, Geert ^a,b   Dumortier, Françoise ^a,b   Verstrepen, Kevin J ^a,c   Delvaux, Freddy R ^a   Thevelein, Johan M ^a,b   Van Dijck, Patrick ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREWER'S YEAST; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; HIGH-GRAVITY CONDITIONS; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS;

ETHANOL; FERMENTATION; GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; SUGARS; YEAST;

BREWERIES;

BIOTRANSFORMATION; ETHANOL; FERMENTATION; ISOLATED POPULATION; YEAST;

ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; BEER; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DILUTION; DNA MICROARRAY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FERMENTATION TECHNIQUE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GRAVITY; NONHUMAN; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES PASTORIANUS;

BEER; ETHANOL; FERMENTATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; HYPERGRAVITY; INDUSTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SELECTION (GENETICS); ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

SACCHAROMYCES PASTORIANUS;

EID: 33846897402     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02109-06     Document Type: Article

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