Kingdom Fungi Scientific name Pachysolen tannophilus Rank Species | Genus Pachysolen | |
Similar Pichia stipitis, Pichia, Meyerozyma guilliermondii, Kluyveromyces, Debaryomyces hansenii | ||
Pachysolen is a genus of yeast discovered from sulfite liquor by Boidin and Adzet (1957) and isolated by Wickerham (1970).
The genus is monotypic, containing the single species Pachysolen tannophilus, the first yeast identified to have a high capacity for production of ethanol from xylose.
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