{"id":318987,"date":"2021-11-17T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationorigins.com\/?post_type=selected&p=318987"},"modified":"2021-11-17T15:30:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T14:30:00","slug":"new-yeast-biodiversity-for-brewing","status":"publish","type":"selected","link":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/en\/selected\/new-yeast-biodiversity-for-brewing\/","title":{"rendered":"New yeast biodiversity for brewing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In a new study looking at the fundamentals of biology, scientists at The University of Manchester and the University of Leicester have developed unique fertile hybrid yeast strains that offer novel and exciting options for flavours, aromas, and brewing processes for the beverage industry, writes the University of Manchester in a press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The newly created hybrid yeast strains have been shown to successfully breed and produce offspring with specific desirable characteristics required for the beverage manufacturing process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Naturally, hybrid yeasts are infertile, and their specific characteristics cannot be passed on. This previously required brewers to use selective methods to achieve the desired traits and has meant that the fermentation industries have so far missed out on potential new characteristics that the large genetic diversity of yeast hybrids affords.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New yeast, new taste <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The type of yeast used in the fermentation process influences how a beer tastes once it has been brewed. There are currently two main categories of yeasts, ale and lager, plus hundreds of variations used by modern day brewers in a booming global industry. Developing yeasts to give new flavours has been a goal of many brewers since the 1800s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, as reported in the\u00a0Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences\u00a0(PNAS)<\/em>, Professor Daniela Delneri, Professor of Evolutionary Genomics at the\u00a0Manchester Institute of Biotechnology\u00a0and her team have succeeded in producing fertile yeast hybrids that are able to breed and generate a large number of progenies with diverse genetic traits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Professor Delneri, lead author of the research said: \u201cThis research tackles the fundamental issue of hybrid sterility and multigenerational breeding. With my colleague Professor Ed Louis at the University Leicester, we were able to overcome species barriers and pinpoint the genetic traits unique to the hybrids. This technology has the ability to revolutionise the current practices for strain selection by allowing, via breeding, the rapid creation of efficient tailored yeasts carrying specific, novel, and important traits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“As well as opening opportunities in food and drink production, this approach could be used to develop novel yeast \u201ccell factories\u201d that could be used in the field of industrial biotechnology to sustainably biomanufacture pharmaceuticals, chemicals and fuels.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hybrids are in food industry’s future<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

This research demonstrates how the potential for enhancing natural biodiversity and developing new hybrids is greater than expected and will offer new ways for industry to generate new and exciting consumer choices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This research was carried out as part of a BBSRC-funded project in collaboration with SAB-Miller and\u00a0AB-InBev\u00a0\u2013 the world\u2019s largest brewer. It also featured as part of the EU\u00a0Horizon 2020 funded project \u201cAromagenesis\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Philippe Malcorps, AB-InBev \u2018yeast guru\u2019, said “We are excited by these findings and pleased to have been able to support this research. The proof of concept opens doors to new innovations we can bring to our portfolio offering exciting new flavours via fermentation.”

Also interesting: <\/strong><\/em>The possibilities of data for the agri-food sector are endless<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2084,"featured_media":318993,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":""},"categories":[34665],"tags":[55321,55214,41259,11629,125693,77666],"location":[55977],"internal_archives":[],"class_list":["post-318987","selected","type-selected","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-beer","tag-biochemistry","tag-biodiversity","tag-food-en","tag-university-of-leicester","tag-university-of-manchester","location-united-kingdom"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"featured_img":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/9s5kP2CD-beer-g6ca84b498_1920-1.jpg","coauthors":[],"author_meta":{"author_link":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/author\/mauro-mereu\/","display_name":"Mauro Mereu"},"relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 5 years ago","modified":"Updated 5 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on November 17, 2021","modified":"Updated on November 17, 2021"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on November 17, 2021 3:30 pm","modified":"Updated on November 17, 2021 3:30 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"\u00a9 Pixabay","tax_additional":{"category":{"linked":["Health<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Health<\/span>"],"slug":"category","name":"Categories"},"post_tag":{"linked":["beer<\/a>","biochemistry<\/a>","biodiversity<\/a>","Food<\/a>","University of Leicester<\/a>","University of Manchester<\/a>"],"unlinked":["beer<\/span>","biochemistry<\/span>","biodiversity<\/span>","Food<\/span>","University of Leicester<\/span>","University of Manchester<\/span>"],"slug":"post_tag","name":"Tags"},"language":{"linked":["EN<\/a>"],"unlinked":["EN<\/span>"],"slug":"language","name":"Tags"},"post_translations":{"linked":["pll_61952377d4008<\/a>"],"unlinked":["pll_61952377d4008<\/span>"],"slug":"post_translations","name":""},"location":{"linked":["United Kingdom<\/a>"],"unlinked":["United Kingdom<\/span>"],"slug":"location","name":"Locations"},"internal_archives":{"linked":[],"unlinked":[],"slug":"internal_archives","name":"Internal Archives"}},"series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/selected\/318987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/selected"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/selected"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2084"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318987"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=318987"},{"taxonomy":"internal_archives","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/internal_archives?post=318987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}