Industrial yeast capable of producing ethanol from at least one pentose
US9090917B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Apr 4, 2011 |
| Grant date | Jul 28, 2015 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 4, 2031 |
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- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY02E50/10
- WIPO fieldBiotechnology
- WIPO sectorChemistry
Abstract
The present invention relates to the field of methods for obtaining ethanol-producing yeast strains, to the field of the thus produced strains and to the field of the industrial production of ethanol from said strains. Particularly, the present invention relates, in the most general aspect thereof, to a method for preparing yeasts from industrial Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains, to said strains, and to the use thereof in the industrial production of ethanol from industrial media containing at least one pentose.
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