Engineered enzymes could generate biomass optimized for conversion into fuel and other useful products

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Oct 27, 2023, 10:07 am184 pts
Plant biologists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have engineered enzymes to modify grass plants so their biomass can be more efficiently converted into biofuels and other bioproducts. As described in a paper published in Plant Biotechnology Journal, these enzymes modify…

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