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A quantitative screening procedure for xylose fermentation was conducted on 56 yeast isolates. Several of the isolates were found to be markedly superior toC. shehatae CSIR-Y492, one of the better xylose-fermenting yeasts identified thus far. The outstanding isolate was a strain ofPichia stipitis which had an ethanol yield coefficient of 0.45 from xylose and which produced no detectable amounts of xylitol.
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du Preez, J.C., Prior, B.A. A quantitative screening of some xylose-fermenting yeast isolates. Biotechnol Lett 7, 241–246 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01042370
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