A research team has unveiled how fermentation time and yeast selection work together to transform fresh ‘Nam Hom’ coconut ...

KANSAS CITY — Taste often becomes an issue when formulating products with plant-based protein or reduced sugar. In both cases, fermentation is proving valuable, and in some cases cost-effective, when ...

Scientists have improved a strain of yeast that can produce more biofuel from cellulosic plant material by fermenting all five types of the plant's sugars. Purdue University scientists have improved a ...

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Without yeast, bread wouldn't rise and beer wouldn't foam. As Nicholas Money's new book, The Rise of Yeast, points out, it leaves its mark on... An imagined conversation between two yeast cells ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Purdue University scientists have improved a strain of yeast that can produce more biofuel from cellulosic plant material by fermenting all five types of the plant's sugars.