Bioethanol for sustainable transportation - Nemo - VTT

Novel robust yeast strains
The baker’s yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is used in production of
ethanol at large scale – preferred organism for industrial production
It ferments C6 sugars, cannot naturally utilise C5 sugars
NEMO project focuses on:
Metabolic engineering for
xylose and arabinose fermentation
Improvement of process robustness;
ethanol & hydrolysate tolerant strains
C6
glucose
fructose
ethanol
C5
xylose
arabinose