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Genetic analysis of apomictic wine yeasts.
Current genetics - 1 Apr 2004
Castrejón Francisco, Martínez-Force Enrique, Benítez Tahía, Codón Antonio C
Abstract excerpt
The Saccharomyces cerevisiae wine yeast IFI256 was selected because of its high fermentative capacity and tolerance to ethanol. Sporulation of the IFI256 strain produced two-spore asci unable to conjugate, but able to sporulate again and the spores produced two-spore asci in all cases. That process was studied for at least five generations. The electrophoretic karyotype showed a pattern of 21 chromosomal bands,...
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