Table 2.

Grouping of total isolates of yeasts from starters of North East India on the basis of fermentation, and assimilation of sugars and other phenotypic tests.

Parameters	Tentative identity
	Saccharomyces	Pichia	Candida	Issatchenkia	Kluyveromyces	Schizosaccharomyces	Saccharomycopsis	Torulopsis
Total isolates	43	60	56	51	41	52	23	60
Sugar fermented
Lactose	+ (3), - (40)	-	+ (6), - (50)	-	-	-	-	-
Raffinose	+ (37), - (6)	+ (56), - (4)	+ (57), - (3)	+	+	+	+ (18), - (5)	+ (56), - (4)
Xylose	+ (39), - (4)	+ (55), - (5)	+ (54), - (6)	+ (45), - (5)	+	+ (50), - (2)	+ (20), - (3)	+ (55), - (5)
Sugar assimilated
Trehalose	+ (40), - (3)	+ (50), - (10)	+ (55), - (5)	+ (46), - (5)	+	+ (50), - (2)	+ (20), - (3)	+ (50), - (10)
Lactose	+ (3), - (40)	+	+ (4), - (52)	-	+	+ (4), - (48)	+ (3), - (20)	-
Raffinose	+ (39), - (4)	+ (51), - (5)	+ (50), - (6)	+ (47), - (4)	+ (38), - (3)	+ (47), - (5)	+ (20), - (3)	+ (56), - (4)
Melibiose	+ (40), - (3)	+ (55), - (5)	+ (54), - (6)	+	+	+	+	+
True/pseudo-mycelia	Pseudo-mycelia	Pseudo-mycelia	True mycelia	Pseudo-mycelia	Pseudo-mycelia	Pseudo-mycelia	Pseudo-mycelia	Pseudo-mycelia
Ascospore	Hat-shaped	Hat-shaped	Oval	Spheroidal	Ellipsoidal	Globose	Hat-shaped	Spheroidal
Representative strains	GM:Y12, AS:Y12, HM:Y15, ST:Y46, AP:Y45, M:Y1, CH:Y22	GM:Y34, AS:Y3, HM:Y3, ST:Y3, AP:Y4, KY:Y3, M:Y49, CHY:34	GM:Y37, AS:Y7, HM:Y7 ST:Y41, AP:Y22, KY:45, MY:47, CHY:37	GM:Y4, AS:Y4, HM:Y50, ST:Y24, AP:Y3,KY:Y4, M:Y3, CHY:36,	GM:Y29, AS:Y6, HM:Y26, ST:Y36, AP:Y6, KY:33, M:Y6, CM:Y10,	AS:Y45, HM:Y9, ST:Y49, AP:Y15, KY:Y5, M:Y9, CH:Y15	GM:Y22, AS:Y2, HMY12, ST:Y12, AP:Y2, KY:Y42, M:Y2, CH:Y22	GM:Y1, AS:Y1, HM:Y28, ST:Y30, AP:Y38, KY:Y10, M:Y38, CM:Y18

All isolates fermented glucose, maltose, trehalose, sucrose, cellobiose, starch, and galactose. All isolates assimilated arabinose, rhamnose, sucrose, xylose, cellobiose, starch, and maltose.