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

The team started with basically a starvation diet of xylose, a sugar, along with formate and CO2.

From Science Magazine

Further experiments revealed that supplying xylose isomerase to flies whose bacteria had been eliminated was necessary and sufficient to modulate fly locomotion.

From Nature

One of the biggest challenges in breaking down biomass into useful chemicals suitable for making biofuels is finding ways to selectively depolymerise lignocellulosic biomass into its monomers: glucose, xylose and lignin.

From Scientific American

One chemical that is produced when processing biowastes is a large sugar molecule called xylose.

From BBC