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Biodiversity and Safety Assessment of Half-Century Preserved Natural Starter Cultures for Pecorino Romano PDO Cheese

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العنوان: Biodiversity and Safety Assessment of Half-Century Preserved Natural Starter Cultures for Pecorino Romano PDO Cheese
المؤلفون: Luigi Chessa, Antonio Paba, Elisabetta Daga, Ilaria Dupré, Roberta Comunian
المصدر: Microorganisms; Volume 9; Issue 7; Pages: 1363
بيانات النشر: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
سنة النشر: 2021
المجموعة: MDPI Open Access Publishing
مصطلحات موضوعية: Scotta-innesto, natural starter cultures, Pecorino Romano PDO, autochthonous cultures, ex situ biodiversity preservation, microbial collections, antibiotic resistance
جغرافية الموضوع: agris
الوصف: The use of biodiverse autochthonous natural starter cultures to produce typical and PDO cheeses contributes to establishing a link between products and territory of production, which commercial starters, constituted by few species and strains, are not able to. The purpose of this work was the assessment of biodiversity, at strain level, and safety of natural scotta-innesto cultures whose use is mandatory for the Pecorino Romano PDO cheese manufacturing, according to its product specification. The biodiversity of three scotta-innesto, collected in the 1960s and preserved in lyophilised form, was assessed by molecular biotyping using both PFGE and (GTG)5 rep-PCR profiling on 209 isolates belonging to Streptococcus thermophilus (30), Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. lactis (72), Enterococcus faecium (87), and Limosilactobacillus reuteri (20), revealing high biodiversity, at the strain level, in the cultures. The cultures’ safety was proved through a new approach assessing phenotypic and molecular antibiotic resistance of the cultures in toto, instead of single strains, while the safety of Enterococcus faecium isolates was investigated according to EFSA guidelines. The use of natural biodiverse cultures for the production of microbial starters for typical and PDO cheeses, such as Pecorino Romano, could be an opportunity for recovering the cheese microbiota biodiversity lost during years of commercial starters use.
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اللغة: English
Relation: Food Microbiology; https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms9071363
DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms9071363
الاتاحة: https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms9071363
Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
رقم الانضمام: edsbas.B5A52F1F
قاعدة البيانات: BASE
الوصف
DOI:10.3390/microorganisms9071363