Product Strain Yp/s Cmoli (Cmols)-1 C-Source References Notes Butanol Clostridium acetobutylicum 0.55 glucose [31] wt/BM     0.23 SO2-ethaol-water hydrolyzed spruce [131] wt/BM   Clostridium thermosaccharolyticum   starch, glucose oak saw dust hydrolysate (1% H2SO4) [132] [133] thermo-phile   Hypothermusbutylicus   starch [52] thermo-phile   Pyrodictumabyssi   carbohydrates [134,135] thermo-phile Ethanol Caldicellulosiruptor sp.   lignocellulose [136] thermo-phile   Caloramataboliviensis 0.52-0.6 sugarcane bargassehydrolysate [137,138] thermo-phile   Clostridium thermocellum 0.35 cellulose [139,140] thermo-phile     0.32 filter paper [141] thermo-phile     0.30 pretreated wood [142] thermo-phile   Clostridium thermosaccharolyticum 0.39 oak saw dust hydrolysate (1% H2SO4) [133] thermo-phile   Bacillus stearothermophilus 0.36 sucrose [143] thermo-phile   Geobacillusstearothermophilus   glucose, xylose, arabinose, starch [144,145] thermo-phile   Geobacillusthermoglucosidasius   glucose, xylose, cellulose, starch [144,146] thermo-phile     0.5-0.55 glucose [147] ME   Thermoanaerobacter AK5 0.42 wheat straw hydrolysate [148] wt isolate   Thermoanaerobacterbrockii 0.29 glucose [149,150] thermo-phile   Thermoanaerobacterethanolicus 0.63 glucose [151,152] in test tubes     0.55 xylose [153] batch     0.27 birch wood hydrolysate [154] batch     0.29 beet molasses [155] in test tubes   Thermoanaerobactermathranii 0.49/0.59 glucose [136,156,157] wt/GMO     0.55/0.56 xylose [157-159] wt/GMO     0.6/0.64 mannitol [157] wt/GMO     0.19 wet oxidized wheat straw [160] in test tubes     0.38 wet oxidized wheat straw [23] in test tubes   Thermoanaerobacterpseudoethanolicus (C. thermohydro-sulfuricum ) 0.65 glucose [161-164] in test tubes thermo-phile   Thermoanaerobactersaccharolyticum 0.61 xylose [165] ME Sorbitol Zymomonasmobilis ZM31 0.162 fructose, sucrose [76] BM Xylitol Candida guilliermondii 0.83 xylose [166] BM   Debaryomyceshansenii 0.507 hydrolyzed brewery waste [25] osmo-tolerant   Gluconobacteroxydans 0.98 D-arabitol +D-glucose + EtOH [167] BM

Table 4: Microorganisms producing alcohols.