New Yeast Can Ferment More Sugar, Make More Cellulosic Ethanol
Date: 11.6.2010
Scientists have improved a strain of **yeast** that can produce more biofuel from cellulosic **plant** material by fermenting all five types of the plant's **sugars**.
The addition of **new genes** to the Ho yeast strain should increase the amount of ethanol that can be produced from **cellulosic material**. Arabinose makes up about 10 percent of the sugars contained in those plants.
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