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
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 C. F. Cross
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