xylose

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The swashing effect begins when bacteria consume fermentable sugars such as glucose, maltose, or xylose.

From Science Daily • Mar. 13, 2026

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

How does xylose isomerase cause D. melanogaster to slow down?

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 Thatcher, Roscoe Wilfred