Sentences with phrase «yeast into ethanol»

This is then fermented by yeast into ethanol.

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We've used yeast to convert plant cellulose and starch into biofuels like ethanol for decades; however, the process still isn't efficient, and scientists are genetically altering yeast to change that.

Yeast and other microbes can ferment plant sugars into ethanol, a gasoline additive.

Plus, this process, reported in Nature, works faster than the several days it takes Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast to ferment plant sugars into ethanol, because it is chemically controlled and therefore can be completed in hours.

The team focused on yeast in part because of its important modern - day applications; yeasts are used to convert the sugars of biomass feedstocks into biofuels such as ethanol and industrial chemicals such as lactic acid, or to break down organic pollutants.

Mascoma has developed yeast that can be dropped into all cellulosic ethanol fermentation processes to increase yields by fermenting the full array of sugars present in cellulosic fermentations, and by secreting enzymes (cellulases and hemicellulases) that can improve hydrolysis yields.

The bacteria do their work first, after which the yeasts kick in to break down any remaining lactose into ethanol and carbon dioxide.

Yeast in rising dough converts sugars into ethanol.