FOOD SCIENCE ›› 2024, Vol. 45 ›› Issue (18): 106-115.doi: 10.7506/spkx1002-6630-20231215-130

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Microbial Community Structure and Organic Acid Metabolism and Their Correlation in the Second and Third Rounds of Stacking Fermentation of Sauce-Flavor Baijiu

HUANG Tingcai, CHAI Lijuan, SHI Wei, WU Shuangquan, YANG Bo, ZHANG Xiaojuan, LU Zhenming, WANG Songtao, SHEN Caihong, XU Zhenghong,   

  1. (1. Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, China; 2. National Engineering Research Center for Cereal Fermentation and Food Biomanufacturing, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, China; 3. Guizhou Zhongjian Liquor Industry Group Co. Ltd., Zunyi 563000, China; 4. National Engineering Research Center of Solid-State Brewing, Luzhou 646000, China)
  • Online:2024-09-25 Published:2024-09-09

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Abstract: The organic acids and microbial community structure of fermented grains in the dominant stacking fermentation rounds for sauce-flavor Baijiu production (i.e., the 2nd and 3rd rounds corresponding to the 3rd and 4th rounds of base liquor) were analyzed using high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and high-throughput sequencing, and the interaction between them was investigated. The results revealed that lactic acid, acetic acid, and succinic acid were the primary organic acids present in fermented grains at mean values of 32.70, 4.87 and 1.93 mg/g, respectively. In total, 8 dominant bacterial genera and 7 dominant fungal genera (average relative abundance > 1%) were identified across the two fermentation rounds. The dominant bacterial genera were Virgibacillus, Kroppenstedtia and Bacillus. The dominant fungal genera were Monascus, Thermomyces and Thermoascus. Principal coordinate analysis (PCoA) revealed that there was a significant difference in the structure of bacteria community between the second and third rounds of stacking fermentation, while the difference in the structure of fungal community was not significant. Co-occurrence network analysis showed that the bacterial-fungal (55.60%), bacterial-bacterial (50.57%), and fungal-fungal (91.67%) networks were mainly positively correlated, and there were more unknown interactions between bacterial communities. Mantel test analysis showed a significantly positive correlation between acidity and bacterial community structure (P < 0.01), and succinic acid was highly correlated with both bacterial and fungal community succession (P < 0.01). Spearman’s correlation analysis revealed that the bacterial community had a more significant correlation with organic acids than the fungal community, while the fungal community showed a negative correlation with most organic acids. Nine organic acids citric acid were positively correlated with Oceanobacillus, Bacillus, and Sphingobacterium but negatively correlated with Thermoactinomyces. The results of this study can provide a theoretical basis for the production of high-quality sauce-flavor Baijiu.

Key words: sauce-flavor Baijiu; stacking fermentation; microbial community structure; organic acids

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