xylose
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Other scientists have used genetic engineering to alter the yeast so that it also consumes xylose, but these engineered strains still prefer glucose, reducing their overall efficiency in ethanol production.
From Science Daily • Feb. 5, 2024
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
The team started with basically a starvation diet of xylose, a sugar, along with formate and CO2.
From Science Magazine • Nov. 27, 2019
How does xylose isomerase cause D. melanogaster to slow down?
From Nature • Oct. 23, 2018
But glucose can be more cheaply obtained from other starchy or woody materials and they cannot find a market for the xylose.
From Creative Chemistry Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries by Slosson, Edwin E.
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