Thursday, February 3, 2011

Biotechnological strategies for hydrolyzate detoxificarion

A revew paper published recently by Parawira et al (Crit Rev Biotechnol. 2010 May 3) describes the application and/or effect of biological detoxification (removal of inhibitors before fermentation) or use of bioreduction capability of fermenting yeasts on the fermentability of the hydrolysates.

Of course, the better strategy is to produce fermentable sugars with little toxic compounds, which will eable us to use a whole slurry process.

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