One of the main contaminating yeasts of ethanol production in Brazil is the species Dekkera bruxellensis. It is able to produce volatile phenolic compounds such as 4-vinylphenol and 4-ethylphenol from hydroxycinnamic acids ...

The viability of technologies that make possible to use all available plant biomass, such as the production of lignocellulosic ethanol, faces challenges as the search for microorganisms capable of fermenting pentoses with ...

One of the main concerns in the ethanol-producing industries is the growth control of undesirable microorganisms that can cause decrease in the fermentative yield. Among non-Saccharomyces yeasts which can contaminate ...