TABLE 5.

Influence of different lignocellulosic pre-hydrolysates on yeast growth in defined YNB medium supplemented with 20 g/L of glucose with or without pH adjustment to pH 5.0 with 5 M NaOH.

	Pa3		Cc3		Cc4
Strain	Unaltered	Adjusted	Unaltered	Adjusted	Unaltered	Adjusted
	(pH 3.23)	(pH 5.00)	(pH 3.83)	(pH 5.00)	(pH 3.49)	(pH 5.00)
Fm17	0	69 ± 4	62 ± 3	88 ± 5	0	66 ± 4
Fm89	0	68 ± 4	48 ± 3	61 ± 3	0	63 ± 3
Fm90	0	61 ± 3	61 ± 4	80 ± 4	0	60 ± 4
Fm96	0	9 ± 1	50 ± 3	79 ± 4	0	54 ± 3
M2n	0	16 ± 1	53 ± 3	57 ± 3	0	60 ± 3
MEL2	0	8 ± 1	30 ± 2	61 ± 3	0	56 ± 3
YI30	0	57 ± 3	70 ± 4	81 ± 5	0	60 ± 3
Ethanol Red	0	37 ± 2	50 ± 3	78 ± 4	0	63 ± 3

Inhibitor tolerance is expressed as relative growth (%) measured for each strain after 40 h in YNB, and results are the means of three replicates (± SD).