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Analysis of the variation in ethanol yield from glucose or xylose with continuously grownThermoanaerobacter ethanolicus

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The chemostat growth ofThermoanaerobacter ethanolicus was limited by either glucose or xylose. Ethanol yield was dependent primarily upon length of cultivation time and secondarily upon growth rate. Low growth rates favored high ethanol yields (0.42 g/g) from xylose.

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Lacis, L.S., Lawford, H.g. Analysis of the variation in ethanol yield from glucose or xylose with continuously grownThermoanaerobacter ethanolicus . Appl Biochem Biotechnol 20, 479–490 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02936504

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