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. 1984 Jun;47(6):1221–1223. doi: 10.1128/aem.47.6.1221-1223.1984

Alcoholic Fermentation of d-Xylose by Yeasts

Ansa Toivola 1,, David Yarrow 1, Eduard van den Bosch 1, Johannes P van Dijken 1, W Alexander Scheffers 1,*
PMCID: PMC240200  PMID: 16346558

Abstract

Type strains of 200 species of yeasts able to ferment glucose and grow on xylose were screened for fermentation of d-xylose. In most of the strains tested, ethanol production was negligible. Nineteen were found to produce between 0.1 and 1.0 g of ethanol per liter. Strains of the following species produce more than 1 g of ethanol per liter in the fermentation test with 2% xylose: Brettanomyces naardenensis, Candida shehatae, Candida tenuis, Pachysolen tannophilus, Pichia segobiensis, and Pichia stipitis. Subsequent screening of these yeasts for their capacity to ferment d-cellobiose revealed that only Candida tenuis CBS 4435 was a good fermenter of both xylose and cellobiose under the test conditions used.

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