xylose
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Glucose and xylose are the two most abundant sugars obtained from the breakdown of plant biomass such as agricultural wastes.
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 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
They have found it possible to work up the corn cobs into glucose and xylose by heating with acid.
From Creative Chemistry Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries by Slosson, Edwin E.
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