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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, October 1998, p. 3887-3892, Vol. 64, No. 10
Faculté d'Oenologie de Bordeaux, 33400 Talence, France,1 and
Carlsberg Research
Laboratory,
Received 20 April 1998/Accepted 22 July 1998
Two yeast isolates, a wine-making yeast first identified as a
Mel+ strain (ex. S. uvarum) and a cider-making
yeast, were characterized for their nuclear and mitochondrial genomes.
Electrophoretic karyotyping analyses, restriction fragment length
polymorphism maps of PCR-amplified MET2 gene fragments, and
the sequence analysis of a part of the two MET2 gene
alleles found support the notion that these two strains constitute
hybrids between Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Saccharomyces bayanus. The two hybrid strains had
completely different restriction patterns of mitochondrial DNA as well
as different sequences of the OLI1 gene. The sequence of
the OLI1 gene from the wine hybrid strain appeared to be
the same as that of the S. cerevisiae gene, whereas the
OLI1 gene of the cider hybrid strain is equally divergent
from both putative parents, S. bayanus and S. cerevisiae. Some fermentative properties were also examined, and
one phenotype was found to reflect the hybrid nature of these two
strains. The origin and nature of such hybridization events are
discussed.
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New Hybrids between Saccharomyces Sensu Stricto Yeast
Species Found among Wine and Cider Production Strains
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d'Oenologie de Bordeaux, Université Victor Segalen-Bordeaux 2, 351, Cours de la Libération, 33400 Talence, France. Phone: 33 5 56 84 64 90. Fax: 33 5 56 84 64 68. E-mail:
Isabelle.Masneuf{at}oenologie.u-bordeaux2.fr.
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