date:Apr 11, 2014
raduate student David Peris, also of UW-Madison and a co-author of the new study. The value of studying diversity is that you can pull out genes or strains that can be used for a particular industrial process.
Their primary job in industrial fermentation settings is to break down sugars, converting them to alcohol. The grail of modern industrial fermentation research is perfecting fermentation processes for things like biofuels. Four of the seven known natural Saccharomyces species of yeast are