Metataxonomic and metagenomic approaches for the study of undefined strain starters for cheese manufacture

Zotta T, Ricciardi A, Condelli N, Parente E.
Crit Rev Food Sci Nutr. 2021 Jan 18:1-15. doi: 10.1080/10408398.2020.1870927. Online ahead of print. PMID: 33455430
Recently, culture-independent methods, based on high-throughput sequencing (HTS), have been preferred, with a significant boost in resolution power and sensitivity level. Amplicon targeted (AT) metagenomics, based on 16S rRNA sequencing, returned a larger microbiota divers …