Yeasts Genetics and Biotechnology
A special issue of Journal of Fungi (ISSN 2309-608X). This special issue belongs to the section "Fungi in Agriculture and Biotechnology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 418
Special Issue Editors
Interests: yeast molecular genetics; genetic recombination; DNA repair; genome stability
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Interests: yeast molecular genetics; genetic recombination; genome stability
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, along with being a crucial industrial microorganism, represents a model organism for the investigation of the majority of biological processes in eukaryotes. This conventional yeast was the first eukaryote to be successfully transformed with exogenous DNA. Due to the efficient homologous recombination between transforming DNA and its genome, it is easy to precisely genetically modify this yeast, allowing for the construction of both biotechnologically relevant strains and strains for application in scientific research. On the other hand, there is a huge number of uncharacterized or poorly characterized non-conventional yeasts, many of which are known to have certain advantages over conventional yeasts, such as the efficient use of alternative carbon sources, a higher resistance to growth and fermentation inhibitors, the production of interesting metabolites, etc. However, for a great majority of these non-conventional yeasts, the construction of the desired strains is not yet a routine procedure because the molecular tools needed for the precise modification of their genome have not yet been developed. Therefore, this Special Issue focuses on research into the genetics and biotechnology of conventional and non-conventional yeast, as well as the development of molecular tools for the targeted modification of yeast genomes and the construction of potentially biotechnologically relevant yeast strains.
Dr. Ivan-Kresimir Svetec
Dr. Marina Svetec Miklenić
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Saccharomyces cerevisiae
- conventional yeasts
- non-conventional yeasts
- genetics
- genome stability
- genetic recombination
- DNA repair
- gene expression
- strain construction
- genetic transformation
- targeted genetic modification
- biotechnology
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