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
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 team started with basically a starvation diet of xylose, a sugar, along with formate and CO2.
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
The product of hydrolysis appears, therefore, to be xylose or a closely related derivative.
From Researches on Cellulose 1895-1900 by Cross, C. F.
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