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Biomass Recalcitrance: Engineering Plants and Enzymes for Biofuels Production,
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Excerpts: Lignocellulosic biomass has long been recognized as a potential
sustainable source of mixed sugars for fermentation to biofuels and other
biomaterials. Several technologies have been developed during the past 80 years
that allow this conversion process to occur, and the clear objective now is to
make this process cost-competitive in today's markets. Here, we consider the
natural resistance of plant cell walls to microbial and enzymatic
deconstruction, collectively known as "biomass recalcitrance." It is this
property of plants that is largely responsible for the high cost of
lignocellulose conversion.
Source: Biomass Recalcitrance: Engineering Plants and Enzymes for Biofuels
Production[ http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/315/5813/804 ], Michael
E. Himmel, Shi-You Ding, David K. Johnson, William S. Adney, Mark R. Nimlos,
John W. Brady, Thomas D. Foust, Science : 804-807., 07/02/09

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