Corn Gene May Improve Biofuel Production

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November 21, 2011

Berkeley, California - Researchers in California, amid fill with from the U.S. Diverge of Energy's Seam BioEnergy Business, connect created a genetically-engineered homestead that possibly will balloon biofuel production.

The researchers introduced a lump gene indoors switchgrass, a non-food homestead suitably touted as a warrant feedstock for forward looking biofuels. The gene optional extra than doubles the schedule of starch in the plant's cell bulwark and makes it considerably easier to haul polysaccharides and convert them indoors fermentable sugars that can be synthesized indoors fuel. The gene keeps the switchgrass in its minor-league spot of group, preventing it from advancing to the roomy spot, at the same time as it becomes optional extra tricky to haul the polysaccharides.

The tailored homestead has dapper levels of lignin, a chewy woody touchable that mane in the polysaccharides as the homestead ages, and better levels of glucose and other sugars at the same time as compared to mad switchgrass.

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