Print Email Facebook Twitter Novel genetic parts and cultivation strategies for yeast-based conversion of lignocellulosic feedstocks Title Novel genetic parts and cultivation strategies for yeast-based conversion of lignocellulosic feedstocks Author Verhoeven, M.D. (TU Delft BT/Industriele Microbiologie) Contributor Pronk, J.T. (promotor) van Maris, A.J.A. (promotor) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Date 2018-09-06 Abstract The recent start-up of several full-scale ‘second generation’ ethanol plants marks a major milestone in the development of Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast strains for fermentation of lignocellulosic hydrolysates of agricultural residues and energy crops. In contrast to the fermentation of hexose sugar-rich substrates, such as corn syrup or sugar cane bagasse, these hydrolysates contain mixtures of the hexose sugar D-glucose and the pentose sugars D-xylose and L-arabinose. While S. cerevisiae performs excellently in fermenting hexose sugars to ethanol, efficient utilization of pentose sugars required extensive metabolic and evolutionary engineering. Subject pentose fermentationxylosearabinoseSaccharomyces cerevisiaeYeastBiotechnologyLignocellulosic biofuelsEthanol To reference this document use: https://doi.org/10.4233/uuid:afd3a04b-1e86-4561-bc9e-87ad8e569de3 ISBN 978-94-6186-944-9 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type doctoral thesis Rights © 2018 M.D. Verhoeven Files PDF Thesis_MD_Verhoeven_2018.pdf 8.3 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:afd3a04b-1e86-4561-bc9e-87ad8e569de3/datastream/OBJ/view