Making bioenergy yeasts strong. Alcohol, Denatured (Research)
|Publication:||Name: Agricultural Research Publisher: U.S.
Government Printing Office Audience: Academic; General Format:
Magazine/Journal Subject: Agricultural industry; Biotechnology
industry; Business Copyright: COPYRIGHT 2011 U.S. Government
Printing Office ISSN: 0002-161X| |Issue:||Date: August, 2011
Source Volume: 59 Source Issue: 7| |Topic:||Event Code: 310
Science & research| |Product:||Product Code: 2868220 Ethanol
NAICS Code: 325193 Ethyl Alcohol Manufacturing SIC Code: 2869
Industrial organic chemicals, not elsewhere classified|
|Geographic:||Geographic Scope: United States Geographic Code:
1USA United States| Your favorite breads and brews may, in part,
be the work of the versatile yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. In
a perhaps lesser known role, this helpful yeast works in
fermenters at biorefineries, converting cornstarch, for example,
into ethanol. Tomorrow, improved strains of this yeast might be
employed at what are known as "advance