by S. Heather Duncan | Apr 10, 2022 | featured
Recent research coordinated by the Center for Bioenergy Innovation paves the way for creating biofuels made by microbes with greater speed, efficiency and flexibility. The effort led to major breakthroughs described in a study published in July in Metabolic...
by S. Heather Duncan | Apr 9, 2022 | featured
Researchers collaborating through the Center for Bioenergy Innovation (CBI) have discovered important new information about pectin, a starch-like complex sugar that helps hold plant cell walls together. Two recent studies better define the roles of specific pectins...
by S. Heather Duncan | Apr 8, 2022 | Uncategorized
Microbes can produce a large array of compounds from biomass sources, like grasses, woody plants and crop wastes, by using their own enzymes to trigger chemical changes. However, bioengineering a microbe to create each new product can take many years and a...
by S. Heather Duncan | Apr 6, 2022 | Uncategorized
Researchers collaborating through the Center for Bioenergy Innovation recently developed a way to make the sugars in plant cells more accessible for producing second-generation biofuels. The results are published in Carbohydrate Polymers. The outer walls of plant...
