PYCC 9559
1 - Taxon name
Torulaspora pretoriensis
2 - Classification
Ascomycota
3 - Strain (species name) changes
NA
4 - Status of the strain
NA
5 - Basis for identification
Molecular (whole genome sequence)
6 - Identified by
Margarida Silva
7 - Original strain number
Car95 Y5
8 - Accession numbers in other collections
DBVPG 7869; CBS 9333
9 - Biological Safety Level
BSL-1
10 - Access and Benefit Sharing (CBD, Nagoya protocol)
No known ABS restrictions
11 - PYCC strain status
Open
12 - Mediterranean strain
No
13 - Substrate of isolation
dark sandy soil
14 - Category of substrate
Soil
15 - Locality
Carara
16 - Country of origin
Costa Rica
18 - Sample Collected by
NA
19 - Isolated by and date of isolation
H.S. Vishniac
20 - Isolation details
NA
21 - Deposited by
DBVPG, Oct. 2022
22 - History
DBVPG > PYCC
23 - Preservation
Glass beads; 20% Glycerol; -150C
24 - Price per culture
90€
25 - Remarks
NA
26 - Medium for growth
YMA
Whole genome
GCA_012851105.1
Title
A taxogenomic view of the genus Torulaspora: an expansion from ten to twenty-two species

Author

M.R. Silva, F. Paraíso, J. Al-Oboudi, M. Abegg, A. Aires, K.O. Barros, P.H. Brito, M. Jarzyna, K. Sylvester, Q.K. Langdon, D.A. Opulente, F. Carriconde, J.W. Fell, T.A. Hofmann, M.-A. Lachance, J.-L. Legras, D. Libkind, A. Pontes, P. Gonçalves, C.A. Rosa, M. Groenewald, C.T. Hittinger, J.P. Sampaio

Abstract

The yeast genus Torulaspora (subphylum Saccharomycotina, family Saccharomycetaceae) is mostly known from its type species, T. delbrueckii, a frequent colonizer of wine and sourdough bread fermentations. The genus currently contains 10 species that are typically found in various natural terrestrial environments in temperate and tropical climates. Here we employ taxogenomic analyses to investigate a large collection of Torulaspora strains obtained in multiple surveys we carried out in Asia, Australasia, North America, South America, and Europe, and to which we added several strains maintained in culture collections. Our analyses detected twelve novel species that are formally described here, thereby more than doubling the species diversity of Torulaspora. We also sketch a genotype-phenotype map for the genus and show how the complex relationship between key genes and the physiological traits they control both between and within species. This remarkable increase in the number of species in the genus Torulaspora highlights how limited the current inventory of fungal taxa is. It also shows how integrated taxogenomic approaches can foster the assessment of species circumscriptions in fungi.

Publication Date

Link to Publication

https://doi.org/10.3114/persoonia.2025.54.08