Selection of Xilose-Fermenting Yeast Strains

ABSTRACT In Brazil, ethanol is obtained by fermentat of sugar cane juice using Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The cane juice extraction generates the bagasse that has been used for obtaining generation biofuel. However, the sugarcane bagasse has 30% pentose that cannot be fermented to ethanol by S. cerev...

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Main Authors: Rosimeire Oenning da Silva, Marney Pascoli Cereda, Eleni Gomes, Gisele Marta Martins, Fernando Carlos Pagnocca, Roberto da Silva
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto de Tecnologia do Paraná (Tecpar)
Series:Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-89132016000100419&lng=en&tlng=en