The rise of yeast : how the sugar fungus shaped civilization / Nicholas P. Money.
By: Money, Nicholas P [author.].
Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, ©2018Description: 210 p: 22 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780190270711 (hardback : alk. paper); 0190270713.Subject(s): Yeast | Microorganisms | Yeasts | SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Biology -- Microbiology | Microorganisms | YeastGenre/Form: Print books.Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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On Shelf | QR151 .M73 2018 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU00000000015592 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Yeasty basics -- Yeast of Eden: drink -- The dough also rises: food -- Frankenyeast: cells -- The little yeast on the prairie: biotechnology -- Yeasts of the wild: yeast diversity -- Yeasts of wrath: health and disease.
Humans knew what yeast did long before they knew what it was. It was not until Louis Pasteur's experiments in the 1860s that scientists even acknowledged its classification as a fungus. A compelling blend of science, history, and sociology The Rise of Yeast explores the rich, strange, and utterly symbiotic relationship between people and yeast.