Rational engineering of industrial S. cerevisiae: towards xylitol production from sugarcane bagasse
Fellipe da Silveira Bezerra de Mello, Carla Maneira, Frank Uriel Suárez Lizarazo…·Gleidson Silva Teixeira
The paper reports CRISPR-Cas9 editing of industrial Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains for xylitol production from sugarcane bagasse hydrolysate, showing improved performance over a lab strain.