The common and unique microbiota in Sabah’s traditional rice wine starter cultures (Sasad)

Rice wine is an alcoholic beverage produced through the fermentation of cereal grains, mainly rice, with microbial starters consisting of fungi and bacteria. However, the microbes in the rice wine starter cultures have never been documented comprehensively except for a few studies that looked into c...

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Main Authors: Meiwei Koay, Hui, Yin Fan, Michael, Clemente Vui Ling Wong
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Language:English
Published: Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2024
Online Access:http://journalarticle.ukm.my/23644/
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author Meiwei Koay,
Hui, Yin Fan
Michael, Clemente Vui Ling Wong
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Hui, Yin Fan
Michael, Clemente Vui Ling Wong
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description Rice wine is an alcoholic beverage produced through the fermentation of cereal grains, mainly rice, with microbial starters consisting of fungi and bacteria. However, the microbes in the rice wine starter cultures have never been documented comprehensively except for a few studies that looked into culturable microbes. Hence, their exact core microbiota contents, especially those unculturable microbes remained unknown. Therefore, this research aimed to identify the fungal and bacterial communities in sasad through ribosomal amplicon-based next-generation sequencing and analysis that captured both the culturable and unculturable microbiota. The results showed that two fungal phyla (Mucoromycota and Ascomycota) with five genera (Mucor, Rhizopus, Saccharomycopsis, Wickerhamomyces, and Kodamaea) and two bacterial phyla (Proteobacteria and Firmicutes) with 10 genera (Kosakonia, Weissella, Enterobacter, Lactococcus, Pseudomonas, Bacillus, Chromobacterium, Paludibacterium, Enterococcus, and Gluconobacter) were identified as the core microbiota (relative abundance > 1.00%) in the sasad samples. Some of these microbes have been reported in other starter cultures, but some are unique to the sasad (Chromobacterium and Paludibacterium). Hence, this research provides the first comprehensive report on the microbes in sasad and provides important insights into the potential roles of core microbiota. These data may be used to facilitate the development of starter cultures with defined microbial compositions for the consistent production of safe and high-quality rice wines in the future.
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spelling oai:generic.eprints.org:236442024-06-10T08:38:05Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/23644/ The common and unique microbiota in Sabah’s traditional rice wine starter cultures (Sasad) Meiwei Koay, Hui, Yin Fan Michael, Clemente Vui Ling Wong Rice wine is an alcoholic beverage produced through the fermentation of cereal grains, mainly rice, with microbial starters consisting of fungi and bacteria. However, the microbes in the rice wine starter cultures have never been documented comprehensively except for a few studies that looked into culturable microbes. Hence, their exact core microbiota contents, especially those unculturable microbes remained unknown. Therefore, this research aimed to identify the fungal and bacterial communities in sasad through ribosomal amplicon-based next-generation sequencing and analysis that captured both the culturable and unculturable microbiota. The results showed that two fungal phyla (Mucoromycota and Ascomycota) with five genera (Mucor, Rhizopus, Saccharomycopsis, Wickerhamomyces, and Kodamaea) and two bacterial phyla (Proteobacteria and Firmicutes) with 10 genera (Kosakonia, Weissella, Enterobacter, Lactococcus, Pseudomonas, Bacillus, Chromobacterium, Paludibacterium, Enterococcus, and Gluconobacter) were identified as the core microbiota (relative abundance > 1.00%) in the sasad samples. Some of these microbes have been reported in other starter cultures, but some are unique to the sasad (Chromobacterium and Paludibacterium). Hence, this research provides the first comprehensive report on the microbes in sasad and provides important insights into the potential roles of core microbiota. These data may be used to facilitate the development of starter cultures with defined microbial compositions for the consistent production of safe and high-quality rice wines in the future. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2024 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/23644/1/SDD%206.pdf Meiwei Koay, and Hui, Yin Fan and Michael, Clemente Vui Ling Wong (2024) The common and unique microbiota in Sabah’s traditional rice wine starter cultures (Sasad). Sains Malaysiana, 53 (2). pp. 307-319. ISSN 0126-6039 https://www.ukm.my/jsm/english_journals/vol53num2_2024/contentsVol53num2_2024.html
spellingShingle Meiwei Koay,
Hui, Yin Fan
Michael, Clemente Vui Ling Wong
The common and unique microbiota in Sabah’s traditional rice wine starter cultures (Sasad)
title The common and unique microbiota in Sabah’s traditional rice wine starter cultures (Sasad)
title_full The common and unique microbiota in Sabah’s traditional rice wine starter cultures (Sasad)
title_fullStr The common and unique microbiota in Sabah’s traditional rice wine starter cultures (Sasad)
title_full_unstemmed The common and unique microbiota in Sabah’s traditional rice wine starter cultures (Sasad)
title_short The common and unique microbiota in Sabah’s traditional rice wine starter cultures (Sasad)
title_sort common and unique microbiota in sabah’s traditional rice wine starter cultures (sasad)
url http://journalarticle.ukm.my/23644/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/23644/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/23644/1/SDD%206.pdf