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

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

The researchers steadily decreased the amount of xylose available to the microbes as well.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 27, 2019

Perhaps this means that xylose isomerase decreases the availability of a glucose substrate needed for the synthesis of trehalose.

From Nature • Oct. 23, 2018

The product of hydrolysis appears, therefore, to be xylose or a closely related derivative.

From Researches on Cellulose 1895-1900 by Cross, C. F.