Yeasts from temperate forests

0555534 - MBÚ 2023 RIV GB eng J - Journal Article
Mozzachiodi, S. - Bai, F. - Baldrian, Petr - Bell, G. - Boundy-Mills, K. - Buzzini, P. - Cadez, N. - Cubillos, F. - Dashko, S. - Dimitrov, R. - Fisher, K. - Gibson, B. - Gouliamova, D. - Greig, D. - Heistinger, L. - Hittinger, C. - Jecmenica, M. - Koufopanou, V. - Landry, C. - Mašínová, Tereza - Naumova, E. - Opulente, D. - Pena, J. - Petrovic, U. - Tsai, I. - Turchetti, B. - Villarreal, P. - Yurkov, A. - Liti, G. - Boynton, P.
Yeasts from temperate forests.
Yeast. Roč. 39, č. 1-2 (2022), s. 4-24. ISSN 0749-503X. E-ISSN 1097-0061
R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GA21-17749S
Institutional support: RVO:61388971
Keywords : non-saccharomyces yeasts * algarrobo trees prosopis * sp nov. * population genomics * cryptococcus-gattii * british-columbia * pichia-pastoris * fermentation performance * lachancea-thermotolerans * genetic identification * isolation * biodiversity * Saccharomyces * Lachancea * Komagataella * Cryptococcus
OECD category: Microbiology
Impact factor: 2.6, year: 2022
Method of publishing: Limited access
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/yea.3699

Yeasts are ubiquitous in temperate forests. While this broad habitat is well-defined, the yeasts inhabiting it and their life cycles, niches, and contributions to ecosystem functioning are less understood. Yeasts are present on nearly all sampled substrates in temperate forests worldwide. They associate with soils, macroorganisms, and other habitats and no doubt contribute to broader ecosystem-wide processes. Researchers have gathered information leading to hypotheses about yeasts' niches and their life cycles based on physiological observations in the laboratory as well as genomic analyses, but the challenge remains to test these hypotheses in the forests themselves. Here, we summarize the habitat and global patterns of yeast diversity, give some information on a handful of well-studied temperate forest yeast genera, discuss the various strategies to isolate forest yeasts, and explain temperate forest yeasts' contributions to biotechnology. We close with a summary of the many future directions and outstanding questions facing researchers in temperate forest yeast ecology. Yeasts present an exciting opportunity to better understand the hidden world of microbial ecology in this threatened and global habitat.
Permanent Link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0335471