date:Apr 11, 2014
now known to be involved in industrial processes, at least as interspecies hybrids.
The idea, Hittinger says, is to tap into biodiversity and find the strains that ferment better and those strains, or their genes, can be plugged into industrial processes.
Brewers and winemakers, he notes, have unwittingly selected for hybrids. The tools of modern biotechnology, he explains, can potentially refine industrial fermentation by mixing and matching genes that lead to a better conversion of sugar to