With more interest in home-baked bread than ever before. And that means a lot of people are making friends with yeast for the first time. I am a professor of hospitality management and a former chef, ...

Commercial plant fertilizers aren't cheap, but yeast certainly is, and it could potentially provide benefits when added to ...

Yeast: It’s an essential ingredient for bread. After all, without it, your bread will be as flat as a pancake! Here’s a ...

Researchers have cracked the code of plant-to-fungi communication in a new study. Using baker's yeast, the researchers discovered that the plant hormone strigolactone (SL) activates fungal genes and ...

Active dry yeast is made up of dehydrated yeast granules. It needs to be proofed before using it in a recipe to reactivate the dehydrated yeast organisms. Storing active dry yeast in a cool, dry place ...

Yeast is already a familiar ingredient to bakers and winemakers, but new research from the University of Georgia suggests it can also trace the footsteps of our ancestors. Humans domesticated baker’s ...

Lab-scale production of medicarpin in yeast heralds another manufacturing option for this natural anti-tumor agent.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Jeffrey Miller, Colorado State University (THE CONVERSATION) With more interest in ...