根霉是一种极其重要的酿酒微生物，在糖化过程中的作用十分显著，根霉产酶特性的研究正如火如荼，纯种根霉制曲早已广泛应用于生产，现今根霉在我国酒类酿造业中的作用已无可替代。本文介绍了酿酒用根霉的一些主要生长及产酶特性，并对根霉在酿酒过程中产酒精及对酒类风味物质的影响的研究进展进行了综述。

Rhizopus is a very important microbiology for liquor-making, which plays an extremely significant role in the process of saccharification. Many studies focus on the characteristics of the Rhizopus enzyme production. Purebred Rhizopus koji has been widely used in production. And nowadays the role of Rhizopus in liquor brewing has become irreplaceable. This paper introduces major growth and enzyme production characteristics of Rhizopus for liquor-making, and discusses the effect of product ethyl alcohol and flavor substances of Rhizopus.

四川理工学院基金项目（2011RC01）