title: Metagenomics insights into food fermentations.
abstract: This review describes the recent advances in the study of food microbial ecology, with a focus on food fermentations. High-throughput sequencing (HTS) technologies have been widely applied to the study of food microbial consortia and the different applications of HTS technologies were exploited in order to monitor microbial dynamics in food fermentative processes. Phylobiomics was the most explored application in the past decade. Metagenomics and metatranscriptomics, although still underexploited, promise to uncover the functionality of complex microbial consortia. The new knowledge acquired will help to understand how to make a profitable use of microbial genetic resources and modulate key activities of beneficial microbes in order to ensure process efficiency, product quality and safety.
authors.affiliation: Division of Microbiology, Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Portici, Italy.
authors.forename: Francesca
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: De Filippis
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Scienze, Università degli Studi della Basilicata, Potenza, Italy.
authors.forename: Eugenio
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Parente
authors.affiliation: Division of Microbiology, Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Portici, Italy.
authors.forename: Danilo
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Ercolini
mesh_terms: D019295:Computational Biology; D005285:Fermentation; D005516:Food Microbiology; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling; D059014:High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing; D056186:Metagenomics; D059013:Microbial Consortia