Reverse engineering reveals pine tree’s chemical production — worth billions
Wednesday, December 12, 2018 - 10:30
in Mathematics & Economics
Washington State University researchers have reverse engineered the way a pine tree produces a resin, which could serve as an environmentally friendly alternative to a range of fossil-fuel based products worth billions of dollars. Mark Lange and colleagues in the Institute for Biological Chemistry literally dissected the machinery by which loblolly pine produces oleoresin. Before […]