Sentences with phrase «producing isobutanol»

In between they turned the light off to shift their metabolism from powering growth to producing isobutanol.

Although natural yeast fermentation produces isobutanol, it does so in miniscule amounts.

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Using their new technique, the Princeton researchers have now used fermentation and genetically - engineered yeast to produce other chemicals including lactic acid, used in food production and bioplastics, and isobutanol, a commodity chemical and an advanced biofuel.

In one case, turning on and off a blue light caused the special yeast to alternate between producing ethanol, a product of normal fermentation, and isobutanol, a chemical that normally would kill yeast at sufficiently high concentration.

They managed to suppress the yeast's evolutionary self - interest by genetically engineering it to produce large quantities of isobutanol.

A team of researchers at Princeton University has developed a way to cause yeast to produce more isobutanol, a possible candidate for use as a biofuel.