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Table 1 Possible yeasts with extremophilic traits for efficient bioethanol production

From: Bioethanolic yeasts from dung beetles: tapping the potential of extremophilic yeasts for improvement of lignocellulolytic feedstock fermentation

Trait

Yeast species

References

High ethanol productivity

S. cerevisiae

[98]

Brettanomyces (= Dekkera) bruxellensis

[85, 99, 100]

K. marxianus

[45, 101, 102]

Lignocellulosic-based carbon (e.g., cellulose, arabinose, xylose)

P. stipitis, C. shehatae, and P. tannophilus, Schizosaccharomyces spp

[103]

Thermotolerance

K. marxianus

[13, 18, 32, 86,87,88, 104,105,106]

O. polymorpha

[87,88,89,90,91]

P. kudriavzevii

[86, 107,108,109,110,111,112,113]

Osmotolerance

Z. rouxii

[86, 88, 91, 114,115,116]

Torulaspora delbrueckii

[86, 116, 117]

Z. bailii

[91, 115, 117, 118]

Metschnikowia pulcherrima

[86]

Wickerhamomyces anomalus

[24, 86, 119]

Debaryomyces hansenii

[86, 117, 120]

Schizosaccharomyces pombe

[86, 115, 117]

P. kudriavzevii

[117]

Halotolerance

Z. rouxii

[88, 115, 116]

T. delbrueckii

[86, 88]

W. anomalus

[86, 88, 115]

D. hansenii

[86, 88, 106, 115, 117]

Ethanol tolerance

O. polymorpha

[87, 89,90,91, 121]

W. anomalus

[86]

D. bruxellensis

[86, 91, 115, 122]

S. pombe

[115]

T. delbrueckii

[86, 123]

Z. bailii

[86, 115, 120]

Furan derivative tolerance

P. kudriavzevii

[86, 91, 124, 125]

W. anomalus

[24]

Acid tolerance

Z. bailii

[86, 91, 114, 115, 118, 126]

W. anomalus

[115]

P. kudriavzevii

[115, 125]