English: Yeasts; True yeasts.
Name: Yeast is releated to Gist meaning boiling bubbling
Clades:
Ascomycota;
Fungi;
Plants.
SaccharomycetesName: Saccharomycotina
The members of Saccharomycotina reproduce by budding and they do not produce ascocarps (fruiting bodies).
The subdivision includes a single class:
Saccharomycetes, which again contains a single order:
Saccharomycetales.
Members of Saccharomycotina are the baker's yeast
Saccharomyces cerevisiae and the genus Candida that includes several human pathogens.
MycologyYeast; unicellulair fungi, not forming hyphae.
Use: yeast are used to ferment carbohydrates into alcohol and carbondioxide; teh carbon dioxide gas gives rise to thebubbling, the raising of bread; making beer, wine, bread.
TaxonomySaccharomycetes is the first diverging lineage in
Ascomycota. They form the yeasts, or true yeasts. Yeast is not a clade. Most Yeasts are classified is
Saccharomycetes. Other yeasts are Schizosaccharomycetes in
Ascomycota,
Tremellomycetes,
Microbotryomycetes in
Basidiomycota.
FamiliesAscoideaceae
Cephaloascaceae
Debaryomycetaceae
DipodascaceaeEndomycetaceae
Lipomycetaceae
Metschnikowiaceae
Phaffomycetaceae
Pichiaceae
SaccharomycetaceaeSaccharomycodaceae
Saccharomycopsidaceae
Trichomonascaceae