Thermo-and salt-tolerant Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains isolated from fermenting coconut toddy from Sri Lanka

‘Toddy’ is an alcoholic beverage obtained by the natural fermentation of phloem sap. We isolated 27 yeast strains from coconut toddy in Sri Lanka. Sequences of the 26S rDNA gene D1/D2 region from 18 strains showed 100% identity to Saccharomyces cerevisiae, while eight strains showed 99% identity to...

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Main Authors: Maduka Subodinee Ahangangoda Arachchige, Shusaku Yoshida, Hirohide Toyama
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2019-01-01
Series:Biotechnology & Biotechnological Equipment
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13102818.2019.1631213