Alcohol is fundamental to the character of wine, yet too much can put a wine off‐balance. A
wine is regarded to be well balanced if its alcoholic strength, acidity, sweetness, fruitiness …

Saccharomyces cerevisiae is one of the best-understood and most powerful genetic model
systems. Several disciplines are now converging to turn Saccharomyces into an exciting …

The dramatic phenotypic changes that occur in organisms during domestication leave
indelible imprints on their genomes. Although many domesticated plants and animals have …

Hybridization between species often leads to non-viable or infertile offspring, yet examples
of evolutionarily successful interspecific hybrids have been reported in all kingdoms of life …

Reticulate evolution can be a major driver of diversification into new niches, especially in
disturbed habitats and at the edges of ranges. Industrial fermentation strains of yeast provide …

Forced interspecific hybridization has been used in yeasts for many years to study
speciation or to construct artificial strains with novel fermentative and metabolic properties …

The study of genetic exchange resulting from natural hybridization, horizontal gene transfer,
and viral recombination has long been marked by controversy between researchers holding …

Saccharomyces cerevisiae is the most extensively studied yeast and, over the last century,
provided insights on the physiology, genetics, cellular biology and molecular mechanisms of …

Yeasts are unicellular fungi that do not form fruiting bodies. Although the yeast lifestyle has
evolved multiple times, most known species belong to the subphylum Saccharomycotina …

Companies based on alcoholic fermentation products, such as wine, beer and biofuels, use
yeasts to make their products. Each industrial process utilizes different media conditions …