By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week -- Research findings on Sugar Alcohols - Glycerol are discussed in a new report. According to news reporting from Shaanxi, People’s Republic of China, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, “Fungal contamination is prevalent in grape berries and unavoidable during the winemaking process. In botrytized wine, Botrytis cinerea contamination of grape berries beneficially promotes the wine flavor, which is desirable especially with high glycerol content.”

Funders for this research include Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China, Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China, China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, National Natural Science Foundation of China, Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province, China Agriculture Research System, Henan Province.

The news correspondents obtained a quote from the research from Northwestern Polytechnic University, “To investigate the underlying mechanism, Aspergillus carbonarius and B. cinerea spores were separately cocultured with two different Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains in both grape juice and synthetic nutrient media. The results showed that both A. carbonarius and B. cinerea promoted glycerol accumulation and the consumption of sugars in the coculture systems but could not synthesize glycerol by themselves. The metabolites produced by fungal spores triggered these reactions. Reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction analysis showed that the presence of A. carbonarius spores regulated the expression of GPP1 and GPD2, indicating that the reaction was triggered by regulating the oxidative balance pathway.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “The study revealed the beneficial impact of fungal contamination on wine quality by influencing yeast metabolism.”

For more information on this research see: Fungal Spores Promote the Glycerol Production of Saccharomyces cerevisiae by Upregulating the Oxidative Balance Pathway. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry , 2018;66(12):3188-3198. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry can be contacted at: Amer Chemical Soc, 1155 16TH St, NW, Washington, DC 20036, USA. (American Chemical Society - www.acs.org; Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry - http://www.pubs.acs.org/journal/jafcau)

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting J.L. Shi, Northwestern Polytechnic Univ, Sch Life Sci, Key Lab Space Biosci & Space Biotechnol, Xian 710072, Shaanxi, People’s Republic of China. Additional authors for this research include X.Q. Chen, S.Z. Lei, D.Y. Shao, J. Zhu, Y.L. Liu and C.M. Jiang.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jafc.8b00205. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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CITATION: (2018-05-05), Data on Glycerol Discussed by Researchers at Northwestern Polytechnic University (Fungal Spores Promote the Glycerol Production of Saccharomyces cerevisiae by Upregulating the Oxidative Balance Pathway), Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week, 572, ISSN: 1532-4664, BUTTER® ID: 015582847

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