Beneficiar:
IBA Bucuresti
Project "Selection, conservation and exploitation of biodiversity of yeasts microbiota from viticultural regional areas"
Sectorial program ADER MADR 2022
Project: ADER 7.1.2./2019
Contracting authority: Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development of Romania
Period of realization of the project: 11.10.2019-10.12.2022
Project coordinator: The Research and Development Institute for Viticulture and Vinification Valea Calugărească
IBA budget: 60,000 lei
Project objective: Maintaining and managing diversity, in different conditions, as well as the dynamic of the yeast microbiota in relation to the sensory quality of the wine.
Specific objectives:
1. Evaluation of various information of the native genofound of yeasts of vinification:
- Updating the database regarding the selection of valuable yeasts of national level vinification
- Taxonomic and identification loading studies of vinification yeasts
- Reactivation of the oenological yeast strains existing in the collections
2. Evaluation of the metabolic and oenological performances of the yeast strains under growing conditions
- Laboratory testing for cell viability:
- Qualitative screening for highlighting the extracellular activity
- Metabolic characterization of vinification yeasts
- Making single, double and / or sequential yeast cultures depending on the enzymatic and metabolic characteristics of the strains.
3. Testing the strains selected at the level of micro-vinification and physico-chemical and organoleptic analyzes for the obtained wines:
- Obtaining red and white wines with the help of selected strains
- Processing of the grapes and obtaining some local musts;
- Reactivating the strains of interest and preparing the inoculum
- Seeding the yeast strains at the pilot level and supervising the fermentation
- Physico-chemical and organoleptic analysis of oblique wines (Compositional profile; Sensory profile of wines)
4. Creation of collections of Levurian germplasm at national level:
- An accomplishment of a national collection with the local species of Saccharomyces and non-Saccharomyces.
5. Promoting and disseminating the results obtained:
- Large-scale dissemination through national communication and publication of the result;
- Participation in technical-scientific events in specific project areas (round tables, national/international symposiums, workshops);
- Working visits / changes of good practice.
Project Manager IBA: Fulvia Ancuța Manolache
E-mail addresse: fulvia.manolache@yahoo.com