... down plant cell walls, highlighting opportunities for further improvements in enzymes customized for biofuels production. The results were published online May 4 in Nature Biotechnology by a team of ...
... Biology's Annual Meeting in Marseille [Session P2]. Traditional methods of generating enzymes for biofuel production currently operate at over five times the target cost required to make the fuels ...
... . The discovery could ultimately lead to plant varieties tailored specifically for biofuel production. Chloroplasts, which are specialized compartments in plant cells, convert sunlight, carbon dioxide ...
Scientists have identified a new protein necessary for chloroplast development. The discovery could ultimately lead to plant varieties tailored specifically for biofuel production.
... can efficiently breakdown lignin into smaller, more manageable chemical units amenable to biofuels production. The exceptions are the basidiomycete fungi, which include white-rot and brown-rot—wood- ...
... tissues.
"Wood and other biofibers made of plant cell walls are the most abundant feedstocks for biofuel production," explained Liu. "One of the first steps of biofuel production is to break down ...
... , scientists have uncovered clues that may help them engineer plants more amenable to biofuel production. The study also lays a foundation for understanding these genes' evolutionary and structural ...
... of ethanol has developed into a "drink-or-drive issue" in the Midwest as a result of biofuel production's impact on water supplies and water quality, says an environmental engineering researcher at ...
... of ethanol has developed into a "drink-or-drive issue" in the Midwest as a result of biofuel production's impact on water supplies and water quality, says an environmental engineering researcher.
... means scientists can provide alternatives to economists and investors who are looking to make smart decisions about biofuel production as fossil fuel resources become more limited. On Monday, June 8, ...
... as corn, soy, switch grass and stover (corn stems and leaves). They conclude that meeting the biofuel production goals will likely increase the depletion of oxygen compared to current levels in the ...
... rice straw into an inexpensive new renewable source of biofuel. Their new study, scheduled for the July 16 ... Energy & Fuels, describes a way to boost production of biofuel from rice straw by almost 65 ...
... (GISP) and Conservancy scientists have identified all the crops currently being used or considered for biofuel production and ranked them according to the risk they pose of becoming invasive species. ...
... Conservation Biology offer a dozen policy recommendations to promote sustainability and biodiversity in biofuel production.
The study looked at factors such as the energy needed to produce a ...
... boon to the world's ailing climate. But efforts in the tropics to significantly expand biofuel production by replacing tropical forests with oil palm, sugarcane and other agricultural biofuels could, ...
