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Improved test can screen fungal pests for biofuel sources

Improved test can screen fungal pests for biofuel sources

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created Feb 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Those pesky fungi that wreak havoc on such important crops as corn and wheat just might be the key to low-cost biofuel production, report Cornell researchers who have improved a method to ...





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Bioethanol’s impact on water supply 3x higher than once thought

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 08, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 1

At a time when water supplies are scarce in many areas of the United States, scientists in Minnesota are reporting that production of bioethanol — often regarded as the clean-burning energy source of the future — may consume ...


Dutch researchers make breakthrough in bioethanol production from agricultural waste

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

With the introduction of a single bacterial gene into yeast, researchers from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands achieved three improvements in bioethanol production from agricultural waste material: 'More ...


Bioethanol's impact on water supply 3 times higher than once thought

Bioethanol's impact on water supply 3 times higher than once thought

Space & Earth / Environment

created Aug 05, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

At a time when water supplies are scarce in many areas of the United States, scientists in Minnesota are reporting that production of bioethanol — often regarded as the clean-burning energy source of the future ...


Genomes of biofuel yeasts reveal clues that could boost fuel ethanol production

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (3) | comments 1

As global temperatures and energy costs continue to soar, renewable sources of energy will be key to a sustainable future. An attractive replacement for gasoline is biofuel, and in two studies published online in Genome Re ...


Magnets can boost production of ethanol for fuel

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created Sep 10, 2007 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (23) | comments 0

In a finding that could reduce the cost of ethanol fuel, researchers in Brazil report success in using low frequency magnetic waves to significantly boost the amount of ethanol produced through the fermentation of sugar. ...


Flax and yellow flowers can produce bioethanol

Flax and yellow flowers can produce bioethanol

Technology / Energy

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Surplus biomass from the production of flax shives, and generated from Brassica carinata, a yellow-flowered plant related to those which engulf fields in spring, can be used to produce bioethanol. This has be ...


Researchers Create First Synthetic Cellulosome in Yeast

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers led by University of California, Riverside (UCR) Professor of Chemical Engineering Wilfred Chen has constructed for the first time a synthetic cellulosome in yeast, which is much more ...


Digesting the termite digestome -- a way to make biofuels?

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created Oct 22, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0

If the biofuel known as bioethanol is to make a major contribution to our fuel supplies, then we may well require the assistance of some tiny insect helpers, says Michael Scharf, an assistant professor of entomology at the ...


Powered by olive stones? Turning waste stones into fuel

Chemistry /

created Oct 29, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (9) | comments 1

Olive stones can be turned into bioethanol, a renewable fuel that can be produced from plant matter and used as an alternative to petrol or diesel. This gives the olive processing industry an opportunity to make valuable ...


Commercial yeasts upgraded with an enzyme for biofuel production

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Feb 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Eckhard Boles, co-founder of the Swiss biofuel company Butalco GmbH and a professor at Goethe-University in Frankfurt, Germany, has discovered a new enzyme which teaches yeast cells to ferment xylose into ethanol. Xylose ...



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