KyleWolf
Well-Known Member
Hey everyone,
I want to preface that I know this sounds a little nuts and most likely won't work, but hey, why not try right?
A little background:
I have a nice big stock of yeast in my frozen yeast bank and decided I want to take on a little project. I am putting together a project for a belgian quad, and decided I really want to do something kinda neat. I am going to blend two proprietary strains together and ferment with that.
Now, this got me thinking and I kinda just let my imagination take control...What if I just took some of this blend off to the side and just kept feeding it, and letting it multiply, do some selection, and keep going etc. I know yeast do not undergo sexual reproduction...atleast not readily, and they mostly use asexual reproduction via budding and binary fission. However, there is genetic transfer that can occur. I wonder how long it would take to produce a culture that was a true offspring of the two original strains and basically call it my own.
I know it would take a lot of selection and plating, colony selection, re-growing, doing test batches, etc. etc. but this could just be a small side project to take up for fun. Just wanted to see what other people thought.
Thanks.
Kyle
I want to preface that I know this sounds a little nuts and most likely won't work, but hey, why not try right?
A little background:
I have a nice big stock of yeast in my frozen yeast bank and decided I want to take on a little project. I am putting together a project for a belgian quad, and decided I really want to do something kinda neat. I am going to blend two proprietary strains together and ferment with that.
Now, this got me thinking and I kinda just let my imagination take control...What if I just took some of this blend off to the side and just kept feeding it, and letting it multiply, do some selection, and keep going etc. I know yeast do not undergo sexual reproduction...atleast not readily, and they mostly use asexual reproduction via budding and binary fission. However, there is genetic transfer that can occur. I wonder how long it would take to produce a culture that was a true offspring of the two original strains and basically call it my own.
I know it would take a lot of selection and plating, colony selection, re-growing, doing test batches, etc. etc. but this could just be a small side project to take up for fun. Just wanted to see what other people thought.
Thanks.
Kyle