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
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
After 300 days and hundreds of generations of mutating E. coli, the xylose was gone.
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 wound gums, for example, yield arabinose, and the wood gums yield xylose.
From The Chemistry of Plant Life by Roscoe Wilfred Thatcher
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