Sentences with phrase «consume xylose»

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Researchers at Tufts University have created a genetically modified yeast that can more efficiently consume a novel nutrient, xylose, enabling the yeast to grow faster and to higher cell densities, raising the prospect of a significantly faster path toward the design of new synthetic organisms for industrial applications, according to a study published today in Nature Communications.

These strains of yeast have the ability to grow anaerobically on xylose at rates equivalent to those on glucose, to consume > 95 percent of the xylose present, even under toxic conditions, and to ferment this xylose to ethanol at high yield.

MEDFORD / SOMERVILLE, Mass. (March 26, 2018)-- Researchers at Tufts University have created a genetically modified yeast that can more efficiently consume a novel nutrient, xylose, enabling the yeast to grow faster and to higher cell densities, raising the prospect of a significantly faster path toward the design of new synthetic organisms for industrial applications, according to a study published today in Nature Communications.