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WORLD JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY & BIOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 32, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11274-016-2036-1
Keywords
Xylose fermentation; Bagasse hydrolysate; Biomass; Ethanol; Xylitol
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- Instituto Nacional de Ciencia e Tecnologia do Bioetanol-INCT do Bioetanol [FAPESP 2008/57908-6, CNPq 574002/2008-1]
- Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior
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The search for new microbial strains that are able to withstand inhibitors released from hemicellulosic hydrolysis and are also still able to convert sugars in ethanol/xylitol is highly desirable. A yeast strain isolated from sugarcane juice and identified as Meyerozyma guilliermondii was evaluated for the ability to grow and ferment pentoses in synthetic media and in sugarcane bagasse hydrolysate. The yeast grew in xylose, arabinose and glucose at the same rate at an initial medium pH of 5.5. At pH 4.5, the yeast grew more slowly in arabinose. There was no sugar exhaustion within 60 h. At higher xylose concentrations with a higher initial cell concentration, sugar was exhausted within 96 h at pH 4.5. An increase of 350 % in biomass was obtained in detoxified hydrolysates, whereas supplementation with 3 g/L yeast extract increased biomass production by approximately 40 %. Ethanol and xylitol were produced more significantly in supplemented hydrolysates regardless of detoxification. Xylose consumption was enhanced in supplemented hydrolysates and arabinose was consumed only when xylose and glucose were no longer available. Supplementation had a greater impact on ethanol yield and productivity than detoxification; however, the product yields obtained in the present study are still much lower when compared to other yeast species in bagasse hydrolysate. By the other hand, the fermentation of both xylose and arabinose and capability of withstanding inhibitors are important characteristics of the strain assayed.
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