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
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
The researchers steadily decreased the amount of xylose available to the microbes as well.
From Science Magazine • Nov. 27, 2019
Furthermore, the authors observed that the flies with their natural microbiota and those that had been treated to remove gut bacteria but had received xylose isomerase both walked faster if they received octopamine.
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.