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From: Large-scale robot-assisted genome shuffling yields industrial Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeasts with increased ethanol tolerance

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Large-scale genotypic and phenotypic screening of Saccharomyces yeasts to select parental strains for genome shuffling. Strains that show good sporulation were clustered according to their genetic relatedness as estimated by interdelta fingerprinting (see ‘Methods’). Phenotypes shown include sporulation capacity, spore viability, and ethanol production from a VHG substrate. Each of these phenotypes was measured for all the strains, and the measurements were then normalized and displayed using a color scale (heat map) as indicated in the figure. Eight genetically divergent heterothallic strains were selected that could sporulate and displayed high spore viability (indicated with arrows and codes P1-P8). This strain set included the commonly-used bioethanol strain Ethanol Red (P7); the best-fermenting strain out of the collection.

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