Journal
YEAST
Volume 39, Issue 1-2, Pages 4-24Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/yea.3699
Keywords
isolation; biodiversity; Saccharomyces; Lachancea; Komagataella; Cryptococcus
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Funding
- Bulgarian Science Fund [KP-06-31/19]
- Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
- Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research
- USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture [1020204]
- DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center [DE-SC0018409]
- National Science Foundation [DEB-2110403, DEB-1442148]
- Czech Science Foundation [21-17749S]
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Yeasts are commonly found in temperate forests, but their niches, life cycles, and contributions to ecosystem functioning are still not well understood. They are widely distributed on various substrates in different types of temperate forests. Yeasts have close associations with soils, macroorganisms, and other habitats, playing important roles in ecosystem processes.
Yeasts are ubiquitous in temperate forests. While this broad habitat is well-defined, the yeasts inhabiting it and their life cycles, niches, and contributions to ecosystem functioning are less understood. Yeasts are present on nearly all sampled substrates in temperate forests worldwide. They associate with soils, macroorganisms, and other habitats and no doubt contribute to broader ecosystem-wide processes. Researchers have gathered information leading to hypotheses about yeasts' niches and their life cycles based on physiological observations in the laboratory as well as genomic analyses, but the challenge remains to test these hypotheses in the forests themselves. Here, we summarize the habitat and global patterns of yeast diversity, give some information on a handful of well-studied temperate forest yeast genera, discuss the various strategies to isolate forest yeasts, and explain temperate forest yeasts' contributions to biotechnology. We close with a summary of the many future directions and outstanding questions facing researchers in temperate forest yeast ecology. Yeasts present an exciting opportunity to better understand the hidden world of microbial ecology in this threatened and global habitat.
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