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
After 300 days and hundreds of generations of mutating E. coli, the xylose was gone.
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
By relying only on the production of the purple colour, however, a mistake might possibly arise, owing to the fact that xylose gives a somewhat similar colour after standing for a few hours.
From Researches on Cellulose 1895-1900 by Cross, C. F.
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