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
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
The authors administered trehalose to flies that lacked gut bacteria and had been provided with xylose isomerase, and report that the trehalose treatment caused the flies’ walking speed to increase.
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.
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