Mekonnen M. Demeke

Development of a D-xylose fermenting and inhibitor tolerant industrial Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain with high performance in lignocellulose hydrolysates using metabolic and evolutionary engineering

Mekonnen M. Demeke, Heiko Dietz, Yingying Li et al. · Biotechnology for Biofuels · 2013 · 340 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Biological Engineering, Biotechnology +17

Identification of novel causative genes determining the complex trait of high ethanol tolerance in yeast using pooled-segregant whole-genome sequence analysis

Steve Swinnen, Kristien Schaerlaekens, Thiago M. Pais et al. · Genome Research · 2012 · 186 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Genetics, Molecular Genetics +15

Combining inhibitor tolerance and D-xylose fermentation in industrial Saccharomyces cerevisiae for efficient lignocellulose-based bioethanol production

Mekonnen M. Demeke, Françoise Dumortier, Yingying Li et al. · Biotechnology for Biofuels · 2013 · 118 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Biochemistry, Biotechnology +15

Identification of the major fermentation inhibitors of recombinant 2G yeasts in diverse lignocellulose hydrolysates

Gert Vanmarcke, Mekonnen M. Demeke, María R. Foulquié-Moreno et al. · Biotechnology for Biofuels · 2021 · 108 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Biochemistry, Biotechnology +16

Rapid Evolution of Recombinant Saccharomyces cerevisiae for Xylose Fermentation through Formation of Extra-chromosomal Circular DNA

Mekonnen M. Demeke, María R. Foulquié-Moreno, Françoise Dumortier et al. · PLoS Genetics · 2015 · 73 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Genetics, Molecular Biology +16