In the Brazilian industries, the inoculum used throughout the harvest of ethanol production consists of a combination of two or more yeast strains. The combination of yeasts may influence in the metabolic pathways of microorganisms and increase the yields and production rates of some compounds. In biotechnological processes with co-culture, one microorganism can prevail over the other. Therefore, the knowledge about how the population dynamics occurs during fermentation allows modifications in the process in order to obtain higher yields and to achieve greater fermentative efficiency. The aim of this study was to investigate the fermentation with synthetic sugar cane broth in co-culture of Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains CAT-1 and PE-2 followed by molecular fermentation monitoring. The concentration of biomass, ethanol, glycerol, acetic acid and residual sucrose were monitored to verify the influence of different combinations during the fermentation. The mixture of CAT-1 and PE-2 presented the highest ethanol production, with higher performance of fermentative parameters than pure cultures
The diversity microbial in ethanolic fermentation generate different behavior metabolic that depended on the microorganisms present. Some kinetic parameters can tell how interactions between microorganisms are occurring in fermentation and can also predict your metabolic behaviors. However, there are little studys about the influence of interactions microbial on kinetic parameters in fermentation sugar cane. Therefore, this work aimed to understand the influence of the yeast strain Saccharomyces cerevisiae CAT-1, MONA, PE-2 and ATCC in the production of biomass, ethanol, glycerol and sugar consumption, as well as to evaluate the kinetic parameters by means of response surface methodology for mixing. From the biomass models generated, it was observed that the yeasts ATCC and MONA when in the presence of CAT-1 and PE-2 showed antagonisms. For the ethanol, the synergistic effect was verified for the mixture MONA/ATCC and CAT-1/PE-2 being that CAT-1 and PE-2 were the yeasts that strongly favored the ethanol production. It stands out yeast MONA due to having lower glycerol production, character desirable in the sugar and alcohol industry. Thus, it is clear that from the analysis employed it was possible to infer about the kinetic behavior of the yeasts in pure cultures as well as the effect of the interaction between them during the cultivation.
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