Research Article

Characterization and Dynamic Behavior of Wild Yeast during Spontaneous Wine Fermentation in Steel Tanks and Amphorae

Table 3

Sizes of digested and undigested nested PCR products representing different yeast species derived using the T-RFLP method.

Yeast speciesSize (bp)
Nested PCR Digested

Aureobasidium pullulans * 254
Botryotinia fuckeliana * 223
Bulleromyces albus 195 164
Candida glabrata 478 224
Candida zemplinina 200
Candida zeylanoides 269 238
Cryptococcus flavus 169 134
Cryptococcus magnus 211
Dekkera bruxellensis 168 134
Epicoccum nigrum * 216
Filobasidium floriforme 237 204
Hanseniaspora guilliermondii 364 66
Hanseniaspora uvarum 365 66
Hyphopichia burtonii 159 124
Issatchenkia orientalis 178 148
Kluyveromyces lactis 305 273
Metschnikowia pulcherrima 140 107
Metschnikowia sp. 348
Pichia angusta 379 351
Pichia anomala 258 228
Pichia fermentans 156 122
Pichia holstii 248
Pichia kluyveri 162 128
Pichia membranifaciens 165 130
Rhodotorula mucilaginosa 229 198
Saccharomyces bayanus 435 405
Saccharomyces cerevisiae 441 410
Saccharomyces pastorianus 435 405
Sporidiobolus pararoseus 222 197
Torulaspora delbrueckii (wild yeast isolate) 370 340
Williopsis saturnus 252 134
Zygosaccharomyces florentinus 244 213

*Molds.