Fuel ethanol is produced by the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae mainly from corn starch in
the United States and from sugarcane sucrose in Brazil, which together manufacture∼ 85 …

The burgeoning interest in archaic, traditional, and novel beer styles has coincided with a
growing appreciation of the role of yeasts in determining beer character as well as a better …

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 …

The most common fermented beverage, lager beer, is produced by interspecies hybrids of
the brewing yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae and its wild relative S. eubayanus. Lager …

Chemically defined media for yeast cultivation (CDMY) were developed to support fast
growth, experimental reproducibility, and quantitative analysis of growth rates and biomass …

Production of leavened bread dates to the second millennium BCE. Since then, the art of
bread making has developed, yet the evolution of bread-associated microbial species …

Highlights•Domestication is a coevolution process between human and other
organisms.•Yeast domestication may have predated plant and animal domestication.•One …

Yeasts directly impact the efficiency of brewery fermentations as well as the character of the
beers produced. In recent years, there has been renewed interest in yeast selection and …

Saccharomyces cerevisiae—the most emblematic and industrially relevant yeast—has a
long list of taxonomical synonyms. Formerly considered as distinct species, some of the …

Ethanol production from sugarcane is a key renewable fuel industry in Brazil. Major drivers
of this alcoholic fermentation are Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains that originally were …