Yeast vitality during cider fermentation: assessment by energy metabolism.

Dinsdale, M G, Lloyd, D ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5656-0571, McIntyre, P and Jarvis, B 1999. Yeast vitality during cider fermentation: assessment by energy metabolism. Yeast 15 (4) , 285--293. 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0061(19990315)15:4<285::AID-YEA376>3.0.CO;2-2

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Abstract

In an apple juice-based medium, an ethanol-tolerant Australian wine-yeast used for cider manufacture produced more than 10% ethanol over a 5 week period. Growth of the inoculum (10(6) organisms ml(-1)) occurred to a population of 3.1 x 10(7) ml(-1) during the first few days; at the end of the fermentation only 5 x 10(5) yeasts ml(-1) could be recovered as colony-forming units on plates. Respiratory and fermentative activities were measured by mass spectrometric measurements (O2 consumption and CO2 and ethanol production) of washed yeast suspensions taken from the cider fermentation at intervals. Both endogenous and glucose-supported energy-yielding metabolism declined, especially during the first 20 days. Levels of adenine nucleotides also showed decreases after day 1, as did adenylate energy charge, although in a prolonged (16.5 week) fermentation the lowest value calculated was 0.55. AMP was released into the medium. 31P-NMR spectra showed that by comparison with aerobically grown yeast, that from the later stages of the cider fermentation showed little polyphosphate. However, as previously concluded from studies of 'acidification power' and fluorescent oxonol dye exclusion (Dinsdale et al., 1995), repitching of yeast indicated little loss of viability despite considerable loss of vitality.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Biosciences
Publisher:	Wiley
ISSN:	0749-503X
Date of Acceptance:	28 October 1998
Last Modified:	26 Oct 2022 08:33
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/127774

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