xylose
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The swashing effect begins when bacteria consume fermentable sugars such as glucose, maltose, or xylose.
From Science Daily • Mar. 13, 2026
In the wild, the yeast strain of interest, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, prefers glucose and lacks the ability to metabolize xylose.
From Science Daily • Feb. 5, 2024
After 300 days and hundreds of generations of mutating E. coli, the xylose was gone.
From Science Magazine • Nov. 27, 2019
The authors administered trehalose to flies that lacked gut bacteria and had been provided with xylose isomerase, and report that the trehalose treatment caused the flies’ walking speed to increase.
From Nature • Oct. 23, 2018
When finally hydrolyzed, they yield arabinose and xylose, respectively.
From The Chemistry of Plant Life by Thatcher, Roscoe Wilfred
