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ArticlemSphere2020

The Preservative Sorbic Acid Targets Respiration, Explaining the Resistance of Fermentative Spoilage Yeast Species.

Malcolm Stratford, Cindy Vallières, Ivey A Geoghegan, David B Archer, Simon V Avery

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Article in mSphere, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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14citing papers in PubMed
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 20% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Malcolm StratfordSchool of Life Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom.
Cindy VallièresSchool of Life Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom.
Ivey A GeogheganSchool of Life Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom.
David B ArcherSchool of Life Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom.
Simon V AverySchool of Life Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom Simon.Avery@nottingham.ac.uk.
University of Nottingham · GB

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/N017129/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A small number (10 to 20) of yeast species cause major spoilage in foods. Spoilage yeasts of soft drinks are resistant to preservatives like sorbic acid, and they are highly fermentative, generating large amounts of carbon dioxide gas. Conversely, many yeast species derive energy from respiration only, and most of these are sorbic acid sensitive and so prevented from causing spoilage. This led us to hypothesize that sorbic acid may specifically inhibit respiration. Tests with respirofermentative yeasts showed that sorbic acid was more inhibitory to both

Indexed as

FermentationFood MicrobiologyFood PreservationFood PreservativesSorbic AcidYeastsFood PreservativesSorbic Acidacetic acidbeverage spoilagefood preservationfood preservativesfood spoilagefungimitochondriarespirationweak acid preservativesyeasts

Identifiers

PMID32461271
PMCPMC7253596
OpenAlexW3030185603

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Registered trials

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