Genetic rescue to the rescue

AR Whiteley, SW Fitzpatrick, WC Funk… - Trends in ecology & …, 2015 - cell.com
Genetic rescue can increase the fitness of small, imperiled populations via immigration. A
suite of studies from the past decade highlights the value of genetic rescue in increasing …

Sucrose and Saccharomyces cerevisiae: a relationship most sweet

WL Marques, V Raghavendran… - FEMS Yeast …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Sucrose is an abundant, readily available and inexpensive substrate for industrial
biotechnology processes and its use is demonstrated with much success in the production of …

The origin and adaptive evolution of domesticated populations of yeast from Far East Asia

SF Duan, PJ Han, QM Wang, WQ Liu, JY Shi… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae has been an essential component of human
civilization because of its long global history of use in food and beverage fermentation …

Novel brewing yeast hybrids: creation and application

K Krogerus, F Magalhães, V Vidgren… - Applied Microbiology and …, 2017 - Springer
The natural interspecies Saccharomyces cerevisiae× Saccharomyces eubayanus hybrid
yeast is responsible for global lager beer production and is one of the most important …

Saccharomyces pastorianus: genomic insights inspiring innovation for industry

B Gibson, G Liti - Yeast, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
A combination of biological and non‐biological factors has led to the interspecific hybrid
yeast species Saccharomyces pastorianus becoming one of the world's most important …

New lager yeast strains generated by interspecific hybridization

K Krogerus, F Magalhães, V Vidgren… - Journal of Industrial …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
The interspecific hybrid Saccharomyces pastorianus is the most commonly used yeast in
brewery fermentations worldwide. Here, we generated de novo lager yeast hybrids by …

Social wasps are a Saccharomyces mating nest

I Stefanini, L Dapporto, L Berná… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
The reproductive ecology of Saccharomyces cerevisiae is still largely unknown. Recent
evidence of interspecific hybridization, high levels of strain heterozygosity, and prion …

Large-scale selection and breeding to generate industrial yeasts with superior aroma production

J Steensels, E Meersman, T Snoek… - Applied and …, 2014 - Am Soc Microbiol
The concentrations and relative ratios of various aroma compounds produced by fermenting
yeast cells are essential for the sensory quality of many fermented foods, including beer …

The genetics of non-conventional wine yeasts: current knowledge and future challenges

I Masneuf-Pomarede, M Bely, P Marullo… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Saccharomyces cerevisiae is by far the most widely used yeast in oenology. However,
during the last decade, several other yeasts species has been purposed for winemaking as …

The Ecology and Evolution of the Baker's Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae

FY Bai, DY Han, SF Duan, QM Wang - Genes, 2022 - mdpi.com
The baker's yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae has become a powerful model in ecology and
evolutionary biology. A global effort on field survey and population genetics and genomics of …