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… to tackle when it comes to breaking down a plant for energy: Cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin, … lignin.  The Impact Traditional methods for breaking down biomass use aerobic methods (those using oxygen) to remove … anaerobic fungi (Neocallimastix californiae) on sorghum, switchgrass and poplar, then monitored changes to the …

… -- copy to summary above^ as well ] The Science The recipe for growing algae as a source of sustainable biofuels seems … thrives in saltwater (halotolerant) and produces the most biomass to date of any such strain, identified through a … The Impact Part of the Department of Energy’s work toward developing a clean energy economy is developing alternative …

… and cyanobacteria create the air we breathe and the fuel for food webs as they turn carbon dioxide and water into … found that this protein detects iron and fine-tunes energy production, allowing cyanobacteria to quickly adapt to their … this protein is unique, as well. “The heme-metal site that we found in the crystal structure, as far as we …

Spencer Chair in Genomics at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology! Loretta Spencer served as a manyterm … announcing a high-quality reference sequence of the complex switchgrass genome , using samples from common gardens … network of common gardens and are exploring improvements to switchgrass through more targeted genome editing techniques. …