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

From Science Magazine • Nov. 27, 2019

Work remains to be done to fill in the gaps in explaining how xylose isomerase affects the level of trehalose in the fruit fly and the activity of octopamine-producing neurons in the brain.

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.