Metabolites, substrates and substrate impurities may be toxic to cells by damaging biological
molecules, organelles, membranes or disrupting biological processes. Chemical stress is …

Eukaryotic cells have developed diverse strategies to combat the harmful effects of a variety
of stress conditions. In the model yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the increased …

Genome shuffling is a powerful strategy for rapid engineering of microbial strains for
desirable industrial phenotypes. Here we improved the thermotolerance and ethanol …

Wheat straw is nowadays being considered a potential lignocellulose raw material for fuel
ethanol production of second generation and as an alternative to conventional fuel ethanol …

Lignocellulosic biomass serves as an alternative renewable feed stock for the production of
bioethanol using biochemical platform. Ethanol yield can be improved by adopting …

The study of microbe domestication has witnessed major advances that contribute to a better
understanding of the emergence of artificially selected phenotypes and set the foundations …

The application and physiological background of two industrial Saccharomyces cerevisiae
strains, isolated from harsh industrial environments, were studied in Very High Gravity (VHG) …

The advent of highly efficient, environmentally friendly and cost effective fermentation
technology has given impetus to research in the field of optimizing nutritional parameters for …

Very high gravity (VHG) fermentation is aimed to considerably increase both the
fermentation rate and the ethanol concentration, thereby reducing capital costs and the risk …

Trehalose is known to protect cells from various environmental assaults; however, its role in
the ethanol tolerance of Saccharomyces cerevisiae remains controversial. Many previous …