xylose
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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
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
The researchers steadily decreased the amount of xylose available to the microbes as well.
From Science Magazine • Nov. 27, 2019
Perhaps this means that xylose isomerase decreases the availability of a glucose substrate needed for the synthesis of trehalose.
From Nature • Oct. 23, 2018
In another trial these sugars and two others, arabinose and xylose, were tested for their protective action in freezing semen.
From Preservation of Bull Semen at Sub-Zero Temperatures by Friedman, M. E.
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