Large-scale robot-assisted genome shuffling yields industrial Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeasts with increased ethanol tolerance

Biotechnology for Biofuels

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Snoek, Tim ^a,b   Picca Nicolino, Martina ^a,b   Van Den Bremt, Stefanie ^a   Mertens, Stijn ^a,b   Saels, Veerle ^a,b   Verplaetse, Alex ^a   Steensels, Jan ^a,b   Verstrepen, Kevin J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Bioethanol; Breeding; Complex phenotype; Ethanol tolerance; Evolutionary engineering; Fermentation; Genome shuffling; Heterosis; Hybridization; Very high gravity

Indexed keywords

BIOETHANOL; FERMENTATION; GENES; GLUCOSE; ROBOTS; YEAST;

BREEDING; COMPLEX PHENOTYPE; ETHANOL TOLERANCE; EVOLUTIONARY ENGINEERING; GENOME SHUFFLING; HETEROSIS; HIGH GRAVITY; HYBRIDIZATION;

ETHANOL;

BIOFUEL; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ETHANOL; FERMENTATION; GENOME; HETEROSIS; YEAST;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 84928713612     PISSN: 17546834     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13068-015-0216-0     Document Type: Article

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