  In this article we report on our results about quark production and chemical
equilibration of quark-gluon plasma. Our initial condition corresponds to a
classic Yang-Mills spectrum, in which only gluon degrees of freedom are
considered; the initial condition is then evolved to a quark-gluon plasma by
means of relativistic transport theory with inelastic processes which permit
the conversion of gluons to $q\bar{q}$ pairs. We then compare our results to
the ones obtained with a standard Glauber model initialization. We find that
regardless of the initial condition the final stage of the system contains an
abundant percentage of $q\bar{q}$ pairs; moreover spanning the possible
coupling from weak to strong we find that unless the coupling is
unrealistically small, both production rate and final percentage of fermions is
quite large.
