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University of Rochester team uses genetics to help break down cellulose

Corn ethanol is largely a boondoggle for large agri-businesses like Archer-Daniels Midland, and aside from the fact that it is domestically produced, the environmental benefits are debatable at best. The question of food or fuel is a whole other question. Ethanol produced from cellulose has the potential produce far greater yields, and can use non-food biomass as feed-stocks. The key to breaking down the cellulose into individual sugar molecules seems to be enzymes. A research team at the University of Rochester, has been doing genetic ... Read more →

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