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SUBMITTER: Chuck GS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3198312 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chuck George S GS Tobias Christian C Sun Lan L Kraemer Florian F Li Chenlin C Dibble Dean D Arora Rohit R Bragg Jennifer N JN Vogel John P JP Singh Seema S Simmons Blake A BA Pauly Markus M Hake Sarah S
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20111010 42
Biofuels developed from biomass crops have the potential to supply a significant portion of our transportation fuel needs. To achieve this potential, however, it will be necessary to develop improved plant germplasm specifically tailored to serve as energy crops. Liquid transportation fuel can be created from the sugars locked inside plant cell walls. Unfortunately, these sugars are inherently resistant to hydrolytic release because they are contained in polysaccharides embedded in lignin. Overc ...[more]