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Genetic improvement of Torulaspora delbrueckii for wine fermentation
* 1 , 1 , 2 , 2 , 3 , 1 , 1 , 1 , 1
1  Departamento de Ciencias Biomédicas (Área de Microbiología), Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Extremadura, 06006 Badajoz, Spain
2  Estación Enológica, Junta de Extremadura, 06200 Almendralejo, Spain
3  IUT Génie Biologique, Université de Bourgogne BP 17867 21078 DIJON CEDEX, France

https://doi.org/10.3390/foods_2020-07727 (registering DOI)
Abstract:

The use of Torulaspora delbrueckii has been repeatedly proposed to improve wine's organoleptic quality. However, this yeast has lower efficiency in completing wine fermentation than Saccharomyces cerevisiae since it has less fermentation capability and greater sensitivity to SO2, ethanol, and CO2 pressure. Therefore, the completion of fermentation is not guaranteed when must or wine is single-inoculated with T. delbrueckii. To solve this problem, new strains of T. delbrueckii with enhanced resistance to winemaking conditions were obtained. A genetic study of four wine T. delbrueckii strains was done. Spore clones free of possible recessive growth-retarding alleles were obtained from these yeasts. These spore clones were used to successively isolate mutants resistant to SO2, then those resistant to ethanol, and finally those resistant to high CO2 pressure. Most of these mutants showed better fermentation capability in base wine than the parental strain, and some of them approached the fermentation capability of S. cerevisiae.

Keywords: Torulaspora delbrueckii; wine fermentation; sporeclone; sparkling wine; ethanol resistance; SO2 resistance; pressure resistance

 
 
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