Raw cows milk microbial composition and correlation to multiple farming conditions with deeper insights on the lactic microbiome and its related functionality for traditional cheese making
Year: 2021
Type: dissertation
Abstract: Raw cow’s milk microbiota and diversity has been a subject of many studies for more than 30 years. As it is a highly nutritious substrate, raw cow´s milk supports a consistent (103 -105 cfu/ml), diverse and complex microbiota with multifaceted roles: starting/facilitating dairy fermentations, contributing to human health, and, conversely, causing spoilage and disease. Culture-dependent approaches are widely used to isolate and characterize the raw cow milk microbial diversity but is limiting on providing information from the live microbiota. Culture-independent approaches based on high-throughput sequencing allows an indepth study of the microbial diversity, potentially also revealing the evolution of the microbial consortia. In addition, the advances of next generation sequencing methods fortify further our understanding on the potential functionality of the total microbiome or even a part of it. Further, is now evident that the complexity and diversity of the raw cow milk microbiome, is associated with many farming management systems, conditions, and contamination sources. To date, significant effort has been made to associate the farming system, other abiotic and biotic factors to the raw cow milk microbiome assessing combination of those factors, but not as a whole system.
Author: Nikoloudaki, Olga
Language: English
Subfield: Food Science
Domain: Life Sciences
SDG: Zero hunger
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7005439774