Cerdeira, Victoria published the artcileDesign of a low-cost culture medium based in whey permeate for biomass production of enological Lactobacillus plantarum strains, Category: alcohols-buliding-blocks, the main research area is Lactobacillus culture medium whey permeate biomass production; enological Lactobacillus plantarum strains; malic acid consumption; nutritional supplementation; sterile wine; whey permeate.
The production of malolactic starter cultures requires the obtention of suitably large biomass at low-cost. In this work it was possible to obtain a good amount of biomass, at laboratory scale, of two enol. strains of Lb. plantarum, by formulating a culture medium based on whey permeate (WP), a byproduct of the cheese industry usually disposed as waste, when this was supplemented with yeast extract (Y), salts (S) and Tween 80 (T) (WPYST). Bacteria grown in WPYST medium exhibited good tolerance to stress conditions of synthetic wine (pH 3.5, ethanol 13% vol/vol). However, when WPYST was added with 8% vol/vol ethanol, cultures inoculated in synthetic wine, showed a lower viability and capacity to consume L-malic acid than when they were cultured in WPYST without ethanol. Subsequently, strains grown in WPYST were inoculated in sterile wine samples (final stage of alc. fermentation) of the red varietals Merlot and Pinot noir, and incubated at laboratory scale. Cultures from WPYST, inoculated in Pinot noir wine, showed a better performance than bacteria grown in MRS broth, and exhibited a consumption of L-malic acid higher than 90%. However, cultures from WPYST or from MRS broth, inoculated in sterile Merlot wine, showed a lower survival. This study allowed the formulation of a low-cost culture medium, based on a byproduct of the food industry, which showed to be adequate for the growth of two enol. strains of Lb. plantarum, suggesting their potentiality for application in the elaboration of malolactic starter cultures.
Biotechnology Progress published new progress about Biomass. 97-67-6 belongs to class alcohols-buliding-blocks, name is (S)-2-hydroxysuccinic acid, and the molecular formula is C4H6O5, Category: alcohols-buliding-blocks.
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