Porfirio Gallegos-Casillas, Luis F García-Ortega, Adriana Espinosa-Cantú, J Abraham Avelar-Rivas, Carolina G Torres-Lagunes, Adrián Cano-Ricardez, Ángela M García-Acero, Susana Ruiz-Castro, Mayra Flores-Barraza, Alejandra Castillo, Fernando González-Zozaya, América Delgado-Lemus, Francisco Molina-Freaner, Cuauhtémoc Jacques-Hernández, Antonio Hernández-López, Luis Delaye, Xitlali Aguirre-Dugua, Manuel R Kirchmayr, Lucia Morales, Eugenio Mancera, Alexander DeLuna
Yeasts are a diverse group of fungal microorganisms that are widely used to produce fermented foods and beverages. In Mexico, open fermentations are used to obtain spirits from agave plants. Despite the prevalence of this traditional practice throughout the country, yeasts have only been isolated and studied from a limited number of distilleries. To systematically describe the diversity of yeast species from open agave fermentations, here we generate the YMX-1.0 culture collection by isolating 4524 strains from 68 sites with diverse climatic, geographical, and biological contexts...
December 6, 2023: Yeast