Nutritional requirements of a Saccharomyces cerevisiae starter culture used in the elaboration of wine from orange

Resumen

The study of the yeasts present in the orange juice microbiota and used in the winemaking involves the isolation, identification and production of biomass. In order to optimize the yeast growth, the nutritional requirements should be determined. The aim of this work was to determine the vitamin and other growth organic factors demand for the S. cerevisiae isolated from fermented orange juice. The culture medium was formulated with sucrose (4 g/L) as carbon and energy source (CES), urea as nitrogen source (NS), six vitamins (calcium pantothenate, pyridoxine, thiamine, biotin, niacin, folic acid), and inositol and p-aminobenzoic acid (PABA) as growth factors. The complete culture medium was used as blank, and three other media were prepared: without the vitamins and growth organic factors, with calcium pantothenate, pyridoxine, thiamine, biotin and inositol and with the latter four vitamins, but for inositol. Finally, four new media were obtained by elimination of one vitamin at a time. The temperature was set at 30 oC and the pH, at 5.0. The S. cerevisiae present in the orange juice needs calcium pantothenate, pyridoxine, thiamine and biotin to grow adequately under aerobic conditions in a batch system, not being auxotroph for niacin, folic acid, PABA and inositol.