Research done by our groups of Oenology in Universitat Rovira i Virgili is ranked number 19 worldwide, according a bibliometric study of scientific literature on wine and grapes in the period 2016-2020, and we are number 12 in the period 1950-2020:
Cimini A, Moresi M (2022) Research trends in the oenological and viticulture sectors. Aust J Grape Wine Res 26 feb, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajgw.12546 (open access)
Congratulations !!
Strategies for microbiological control of the alcoholic fermentation in wines by exploiting the microbial terroir complexity: A mini-review
Albert Mas, M. Carmen Portillo
International Journal of Food Microbiology 367 (2022) 109592
This review focuses on the alternatives to current commercial yeast starters, mainly based on the local multispecies starters or controlled spontaneous fermentations, considering the advantages and limitations of each strategy. Also, an ancestral technique based on the use of pre-fermented must (Pied-de-Cuve) is presented, because it provides certain microbial control to the alcoholic fermentation while allows the development of autochthonous microorganisms that might confer microbial typicity to the produced wines.
All researchers working in Wine Microbiology are invited to submit their articles to this Special Issue.
The Guest Editors are our colleagues Albert Bordons and Cristina Reguant.
More information in https://www.mdpi.com/journal/foods/special_issues/recent_wine_microbiology
Last 19th November 2021, our PhD student Mercè Sunyer has presented in the Faculty of Oenology her thesis "Protective effects of bioactive compounds against fermentation-associated stresses in Saccharomyces cerevisiae". Directors: M. Jesús Torija and Gemma Beltran. She has got the maximum qualification. Congratulations, new Doctor !!
Last 3rd November 2021, our PhD student Xiaolin Zhu has presented online from China her thesis "Microbiological non-GMO approaches for the reduction of ethanol in wines". Directors: Gemma Beltran, Yurena Navarro and Albert Mas. She has got the maximum qualification. Congratulations, new Doctor !!
Last Friday 15th October we have celebrated the monthly online meeting of Wine Biotechnology Research Group.
The last results of different projects have been discussed and our colleague Xiaolin Zhu (predoctoral researcher) has presented an assay of her PhD defence that will be next 3rd November.
