Improvement of Ethanol Tolerance by Inactive Protoplast Fusion in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Table 1

Comparison between strains Q and L and the fusant QL-f2 with respect to fermentation properties.

	Strain Q	Strain L	Fusant QL-f2
CO2-weight-loss rate (g·d^−1)	1.03 ± 0.04	0.91 ± 0.08	1.18 ± 0.05
SO2 concentration (mg·L^−1)	8.91 ± 0.42	6.99 ± 0.51	7.96 ± 0.44
α-N assimilability (%)	53.2 ± 1.31	48.2 ± 1.39	52.9 ± 1.08
GSH concentration (mg·L^−1)	0.46 ± 0.02	0.62 ± 0.03	0.43 ± 0.02
Sedimentation (%)	73.2 ± 1.04	68.2 ± 0.98	76.6 ± 1.12
Tolerable ethanol concentration (%)	10	14	14