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A New Route to Engineer Plant Genes For Biofuels

December 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment

A research group from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) uses a different concept of gene manipulation techniques to engineer plants that can be more easily broken down into biofuels. Plants high in lignin and hemicelluloses – lignocellulosic biomass – have a high content of pentose sugars (five carbon atoms) that are more difficult to [...]