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Review
. 2015 Sep;33(9):547-53.
doi: 10.1016/j.tibtech.2015.06.008. Epub 2015 Jul 18.

Improving Oenococcus oeni to overcome challenges of wine malolactic fermentation

Alice Betteridge  1 , Paul Grbin  1 , Vladimir Jiranek  2
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Improving Oenococcus oeni to overcome challenges of wine malolactic fermentation

Alice Betteridge et al. Trends Biotechnol. 2015 Sep.

Abstract

Oenococcus oeni is crucial for winemaking, bringing stabilization, deacidification, and sensory impacts through malolactic fermentation (MLF) to most wine styles. The poor nutritional make-up of wine together with typically low processing temperatures and pH and high ethanol content and sulfur dioxide (SO2) hinder O. oeni growth and activity. Production delays and interventions with starter cultures and nutritional supplements have significant cost and quality implications; thus, optimization of O. oeni has long been a priority. A range of optimization strategies, some guided by detailed characterization of O. oeni, have been exploited. Varying degrees of success have been seen with classical strain selection, mutagenesis, gene recombination, genome shuffling, and, most recently, directed evolution (DE). The merits, limitations, and future prospects of each are discussed.

Keywords: lactic acid bacteria; malolactic fermentation; physiochemical stress; wine biotechnology.

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