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      Biocontrol activity of Starmerella bacillaris yeast against blue mold disease on apple fruit and its effect on cider fermentation

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          The reduction of chemical fungicides in agriculture has led to the use of microorganisms as biocontrol agents. Starmerella bacillaris is a non- Saccharomyces yeast associated with overripe and botrytized grape berries microbiota. Its use has been proposed for wine fermentation because of yeast fructophilic character and high glycerol production. Recently, S. bacillaris has been demonstrated to possess antifungal activity against Botrytis cinerea on the grape. Penicillium expansum is the pathogen responsible for the blue mold rot, the most important postharvest disease of apples. These fruits are the raw material of the cider, an alcoholic beverage commonly produced using S. cerevisiae starter cultures. In this study 14 S. bacillaris strains have been studied to evaluate their postharvest antifungal activity against P. expansum on apples. Moreover, the fermentation performances in apple juice of these non- Saccharomyces strains were tested, both in single-strain fermentation and in sequential fermentation, together with S. cerevisiae. Four S. bacillaris strains, able to significantly decrease blue mold rot symptoms and to increase glycerol content during fermentation have been selected to improve apple and cider quality.

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            Microbial biogeography of wine grapes is conditioned by cultivar, vintage, and climate.

            Wine grapes present a unique biogeography model, wherein microbial biodiversity patterns across viticultural zones not only answer questions of dispersal and community maintenance, they are also an inherent component of the quality, consumer acceptance, and economic appreciation of a culturally important food product. On their journey from the vineyard to the wine bottle, grapes are transformed to wine through microbial activity, with indisputable consequences for wine quality parameters. Wine grapes harbor a wide range of microbes originating from the surrounding environment, many of which are recognized for their role in grapevine health and wine quality. However, determinants of regional wine characteristics have not been identified, but are frequently assumed to stem from viticultural or geological factors alone. This study used a high-throughput, short-amplicon sequencing approach to demonstrate that regional, site-specific, and grape-variety factors shape the fungal and bacterial consortia inhabiting wine-grape surfaces. Furthermore, these microbial assemblages are correlated to specific climatic features, suggesting a link between vineyard environmental conditions and microbial inhabitation patterns. Taken together, these factors shape the unique microbial inputs to regional wine fermentations, posing the existence of nonrandom "microbial terroir" as a determining factor in regional variation among wine grapes.
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              Biological control of postharvest diseases of fruits and vegetables by microbial antagonists: A review

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                PLoS One
                PLoS ONE
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                plosone
                PLoS ONE
                Public Library of Science (San Francisco, CA USA )
                1932-6203
                21 September 2018
                2018
                : 13
                : 9
                : e0204350
                Affiliations
                [1 ] Department of Agronomy Food Natural resources Animals and Environment (DAFNAE), University of Padova, Legnaro, Italy
                [2 ] Interdepartmental Centre for Research in Viticulture and Enology (CIRVE), University of Padova, Conegliano, Italy
                [3 ] Department of Biotechnology, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
                [4 ] Department of Land Environment Agriculture and Forestry (TESAF), University of Padova, Legnaro, Italy
                Tulane University Health Sciences Center, UNITED STATES
                Author notes

                Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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                http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4499-8653
                http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5912-6148
                http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4124-0142
                Article
                PONE-D-18-12781
                10.1371/journal.pone.0204350
                6150530
                30240411
                5349b8af-33fd-4288-ba6e-fc8be5c883df
                © 2018 Nadai et al

                This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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                : 27 April 2018
                : 31 August 2018
                Page count
                Figures: 4, Tables: 2, Pages: 15
                Funding
                Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100002322, Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior;
                Award Recipient :
                Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100003407, Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca;
                Award ID: 60A08/3022/15
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                Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100003407, Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca;
                Award Recipient :
                The research financial support was provided by CAPES Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior and MIUR Ex 60% (Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca) (Grant No. 60A08/3022/15). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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                Biology and Life Sciences
                Biochemistry
                Metabolism
                Metabolic Processes
                Fermentation
                Biology and Life Sciences
                Organisms
                Eukaryota
                Plants
                Fruits
                Apples
                Research and Analysis Methods
                Experimental Organism Systems
                Model Organisms
                Saccharomyces Cerevisiae
                Research and Analysis Methods
                Model Organisms
                Saccharomyces Cerevisiae
                Biology and Life Sciences
                Organisms
                Eukaryota
                Fungi
                Yeast
                Saccharomyces
                Saccharomyces Cerevisiae
                Research and Analysis Methods
                Experimental Organism Systems
                Yeast and Fungal Models
                Saccharomyces Cerevisiae
                Biology and Life Sciences
                Organisms
                Eukaryota
                Fungi
                Yeast
                Biology and Life Sciences
                Organisms
                Eukaryota
                Plants
                Fruits
                Physical sciences
                Chemistry
                Polymer chemistry
                Monomers (Chemistry)
                Glycerol
                Biology and Life Sciences
                Nutrition
                Diet
                Beverages
                Alcoholic Beverages
                Wine
                Medicine and Health Sciences
                Nutrition
                Diet
                Beverages
                Alcoholic Beverages
                Wine
                Biology and Life Sciences
                Agriculture
                Crop Science
                Crops
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