Isak S. Pretorius

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the effect of diammonium phosphate supplements on the chemical composition and volatile profile of Albarino wines and found that high nitrogen concentrations were associated with high terpenes.

TL;DR: A comprehensive and long overdue biogeographical survey systematically cataloging yeasts in different climatic zones of the 350-year-old wine-producing regions of the Western Cape appears to show that fears of commercial yeasts ultimately dominating the natural microflora seem to be exaggerated.

TL;DR: In combined fermentations, no change in overall fermentation rate or standard wine chemical analyses could be observed in comparison to a control S. cerevisiae fermentation, however, wine production in three consecutive years showed that the wine produced by the combined fermentation was of higher quality than thatproduced by the S. Cerevisiae only.

TL;DR: If the integration of this powerful technology with traditional breeding programmes, and with other initiatives such as the study of the grapevine genome, will ensure a new era in the cultivation of this ancient species.

TL;DR: It is shown that the transcriptional activator Mss11p, which has previously been shown to be involved in the regulation of starch degradation, the formation of pseudohyphae and haploid invasive growth, also acts as a strong inducer of flocculation.