Diving into yeast's sugar diet

Yeast, the single-cell micro-organism mostly known for its role in the production of beer and bread, harvests an enormous potential to convert organic resources into a myriad of chemical building blocks and biofuels. In a joint research project, Andreas Gombert from the University of Campinas, Brazil, and Aljoscha Wahl from Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands, investigated how yeast grows on sucrose and glucose, in order to understand why and how the yeast sometimes grows faster using one or the other sugar.

Further information on Brazil-Netherlands collaboration can be found at the Netherlands Innovation Attache Network Brazil page.