genetics

Brewing Beer In the Age of Infertility

It’s time to move past yeast’s fertility problems. Last week, an article by teams at the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, the Department of Genetics & Genome Biology at the University of Leicester, and the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology at the University of Cambridge, was submitted to bioRxiv. This submission (which probably will be peer-reviewed soon) deals with the genetics of yeast. Subscribe now …

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Genetics of malting quality: The end of the road for crop improvement?

‘Au contraire’ my friends! In this instalment of the Beerologist, we will look into some of the latest research on Malts or Barley to be more precise. In the last episode of my newsletter, I stated how breeders need to breed malting barley varieties that have to fulfil strict criteria. To breed crop cultivars, geneticists …

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