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Adhesion of Candida spp. and Pichia spp. to wooden surfaces

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dc.contributor.author Tomičić, Ružica
dc.contributor.author Tomičić, Zorica
dc.contributor.author Raspor, Peter
dc.date.accessioned 2018-06-27T14:01:03Z
dc.date.available 2018-06-27T14:01:03Z
dc.date.issued 2017-03
dc.identifier.citation Tomičić, R., Tomičić, Z., Raspor, P. (2017) Adhesion of Candida spp. and Pichia spp. to wooden surfaces. Food Technology and Biotechnology, 55, 1, 138–142. DOI:10.17113/ftb.55.01.17.4514 en_US
dc.identifier.issn 1330-9862
dc.identifier.uri http://oa.fins.uns.ac.rs/handle/123456789/84
dc.description peer-reviewed en_US
dc.description.abstract Yeast adhesion to and biofilm formation on surfaces is present in many different environments. In food industry, biofilms may be a source of contaminations, causing food spoilage and reducing quality of products. Candida and Pichia are two common yeast genera involved in the spoilage of some food products. The aim of this study is to assess the potential of Candida and Pichia species to adhere to two types of wooden surfaces (smooth and rough), one of the materials typical for the food processing industry, and investigate the influence of surface roughness of wood on the degree of yeast adhesion. The adhesion of the cells to the wooden surfaces was determined by rinsing them from the surface, followed by methylene blue staining, and quantification after imaging under microscope by automatic counting of viable cells. The results showed that all Candida and Pichia strains were able to adhere to the wooden surfaces in a species- and strain-dependent manner. On the other hand, our data indicated that adhesion by these yeasts was not significantly affected by the roughness of the wood surfaces. en_US
dc.description.sponsorship Authors thank Dr. Neža Čadež for providing strains from the collection and Prof. Dr. Miha Humar for beech samples and their characterisation at Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. R. T. thanks Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development Republic of Serbia (project nos. TR-31055 and III46012) for financial support during studying at Biotechnical Faculty in Ljubljana. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology, University of Zagreb, Croatia en_US
dc.relation info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MESTD/Technological Development (TD or TR)/31055/RS//
dc.relation info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MESTD/Integrated and Interdisciplinary Research (IIR or III)/46012/RS//
dc.relation.ispartofseries 001;0079
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subject adhesion en_US
dc.subject yeast en_US
dc.subject Candida spp en_US
dc.subject Pichia spp en_US
dc.subject wood surfaces en_US
dc.title Adhesion of Candida spp. and Pichia spp. to wooden surfaces en_US
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dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article en_US


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