From the vineyard to the winery: how microbial ecology drives regional distinctiveness of wine

D Liu, P Zhang, D Chen, K Howell - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Wine production is a complex process from the vineyard to the winery. On this journey,
microbes play a decisive role. From the environment where the vines grow, encompassing …

[HTML][HTML] Does consumption of fermented foods modify the human gut microbiota?

LT Stiemsma, RE Nakamura, JG Nguyen… - The Journal of nutrition, 2020 - Elsevier
The human microbiota is a key contributor to many aspects of human health and its
composition is largely influenced by diet. There is a growing body of scientific evidence to …

Recent past, present, and future of the food microbiome

F De Filippis, E Parente, D Ercolini - Annual Review of Food …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Sequencing technologies have deeply changed our approach to the study of food microbial
communities. This review describes recent exploitations of high-throughput sequencing …

The grapevine and wine microbiome: insights from high-throughput amplicon sequencing

HH Morgan, M Du Toit, ME Setati - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
From the time when microbial activity in wine fermentation was first demonstrated, the
microbial ecology of the vineyard, grape, and wine has been extensively investigated using …

Meta-omics insights in the microbial community profiling and functional characterization of fermented foods

G Chen, C Chen, Z Lei - Trends in Food Science & Technology, 2017 - Elsevier
Background Food fermentation is an important pillar of societal traditions, but also crucial in
terms of economy for numerous regional products, as well as rich microbiological resources …

Bark and Grape Microbiome of Vitis vinifera: Influence of Geographic Patterns and Agronomic Management on Bacterial Diversity

N Vitulo, WJF Lemos Jr, M Calgaro… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
In recent years, the concept of “microbial terroir” has been introduced in the frame of the
more renowned notion of “vitivinicultural terroir,'since several studies demonstrated that …

Metagenomic approaches to investigate the contribution of the vineyard environment to the quality of wine fermentation: potentials and difficulties

I Stefanini, D Cavalieri - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The winemaking is a complex process that begins in the vineyard and ends at consumption
moment. Recent reports have shown the relevance of microbial populations in the definition …

Measures to improve wine malolactic fermentation

KM Sumby, L Bartle, PR Grbin, V Jiranek - Applied microbiology and …, 2019 - Springer
This review focuses on the considerable amount of research that has been directed towards
the improvement of efficiency and reliability of malolactic fermentation (MLF), which is …

Human endometrial microbiota at term of normal pregnancies

C Leoni, O Ceci, C Manzari, B Fosso, M Volpicella… - Genes, 2019 - mdpi.com
The endometrium is a challenging site for metagenomic analysis due to difficulties in
obtaining uncontaminated samples and the limited abundance of the bacterial population …

From the vineyard soil to the grape berry surface: Unravelling the dynamics of the microbial terroir

A Teixeira, V Martins, H Gerós - Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 2024 - Elsevier
While unique bacterial and fungal communities are identified in various vineyard habitats,
including soils, roots, and trunks, the impact of soil microbiota on the structure of …