These genes might thus offer L. plantarum 80 unique features to be able to dominate the fructose-containing cocoa pulp-bean mass during cocoa bean fermentation.
Further, it has been shown that this species plays an essential role in the fermentation of cocoa pulp-bean mass, the first step in chocolate production [ 31- 33].
This enzyme is involved in the breakdown of pectin, a compound responsible for the viscosity of the cocoa pulp-bean mass.
This elaborate peptide uptake and degradation machinery might be an important mechanism for L. plantarum 80 to thrive in the protein-containing fermenting cocoa pulp-bean mass.
Homolactic fermentation of cocoa pulp-bean mass carbohydrates such as glucose and fructose, resulting from the hydrolysis of sucrose present in the cocoa pulp-bean mass by pulp or yeast invertase, results in lactic acid, while heterolactic fermentation gives lactic acid, acetic acid and/or ethanol, and carbon dioxide [ 6].
This indicates that the latter strain, when thriving in the high-temperature cocoa pulp-bean mass, may use the same mechanisms towards heat stress as A. tropicalis NBRC 101654.
Although depectinization is mainly important in the beginning (anaerobic yeast activity phase) of the cocoa bean fermentation process, the activity of the pectinolytic enzymes allows air to enter the cocoa pulp-bean mass, which promotes the growth of obligate aerobic AAB.
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