New yeast strains can improve ethanol production efficiency

Indian researchers have isolated a new yeast strain that ferments wood cellulose such as crop straw to produce about 15.5% more ethanol than traditional strains.
According to the introduction, the use of traditional yeast strains fermented rice and wheat straw and other hegnoctic cellulose production ethanol, mainly the following bottlenecks: the need to control the ambient temperature within 30 degrees Celsius to ensure fermentation effect;
India's International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology researcher Naseem Goer and others report in the new issue of the British journal Biofuel Technology that they isolated 500 yeast-like strains from a variety of sample sources, including brewery waste, dairy waste, hot springs, and compared the isolated strains with existing yeast strains and found that a strain codenamed NBY10 was best suited for rice and wheat straw fermentation
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Compared with the yeast strains on the market today, the newly isolated strains are heat resistant and can continue to ferment in a 40 degree Celsius environment, and their fermentation properties are not affected by inhibitors such as aldehyde, and they can ferment almost all active ingredients in cellulose, thereby increasing yield and reducing costs.