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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 15, 2009
Satoshi Ohara, Moriya, JP;
Akira Sugimoto, Ishigaki, JP;
Yoshifumi Terajima, Nishinoomote, JP;
Asahi Group Holdings, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Incorporated Administrative Agency National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Tsukuba-shi, JP;
Abstract
Provided is a method for efficiently producing sugar and simultaneously efficiently producing ethanol. A method for producing sugar characterized by comprising a pretreatment step in which a plant-origin sugar solution is fermented by a microorganism having no sucrose-degrading enzyme and a step for producing sugar from the fermented sugar solution. A method for producing sugar characterized by comprising a pretreatment step in which a plant-origin sugar solution is fermented by a microorganism in the presence of a sucrose-degrading enzyme inhibitor and a step for producing sugar from the fermented sugar solution.