OUTLINE

• What is yeast nutrition?

• Why is it important?

• Current understanding of the needs and challenges

• Utilization of nutrients to rectifyidentified challenges

WHAT IS YEAST NUTRITION?

• Yeast cell physiology

– Refers to how yeast cells feed, metabolize, grow, reproduce, survive and ultimately die

• Yeast nutrition

– Mechanisms of how yeast cells translocate water and essential organic and inorganic nutrients from the surrounding environment, through the cell wall, across the cellular membrane and into the intracellular milieu

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