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Screening for L-Arabinose Fermenting Yeasts

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Seventeenth Symposium on Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals

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Utilization of pentose sugars (D-xylose and L-arabinose) derived from hemicellulose is essential for the economic conversion of biomass to ethanol. Xylosefermenting yeasts were discovered in the 1980s, but to date, no yeasts have been found that ferment L-arabinose to ethanol in significant quantities. We have screened 116 different yeasts for the ability to ferment L-arabinose and have found the following species able to ferment the sugar: Candida auringiensis, Candida succiphila, Ambrosiozyma monospora and Candida sp. (YB-2248). Though these yeasts produced ethanol concentrations of 4.1 g /L or less, they are potential candidates for mutational enhancement of L-arabinose fermentation. These yeasts were also found to ferment D-xylose.

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  1. US Department of Agriculture, Fermentation and Biochemistry Research, 1815 North University Street, Peoria, IL, 61604-3999, USA

    Bruce S. Dien, Badal C. Saha & Rodney J. Bothast

  2. US Department of Agriculture, National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research, Agricultural Research Service, 1815 North University Street, Peoria, IL, 61604-3999, USA

    Cletus George. Kurtzman

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Dien, B.S., Kurtzman, C.G., Saha, B.C., Bothast, R.J. (1996). Screening for L-Arabinose Fermenting Yeasts. In: Wyman, C.E., Davison, B.H. (eds) Seventeenth Symposium on Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals. ABAB Symposium, vol 57/58. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0223-3_21

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