Remember the melting witch in The Wizard of Oz?
What if corn stalks, for instance, could be induced to “melt” from tough biomass into a sugary puddle? That is, to breakdown their cellulosic biomass into a solution of glucose and other sugars.
If so, it would be much more cost effective to use corn biomass as a [...]
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Self-Digesting Plants? – Potential Key to Biofuel Production from Plant Biomass
Posted in Plant Cell Walls, tagged agriculture, Biofuels, botany, Energy, global warming, science on November 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
