Self-Digesting Plants? – Potential Key to Biofuel Production from Plant Biomass
Posted in Plant Cell Walls on Nov 2nd, 2008
Remember the melting witch in The Wizard of Oz? What if corn stalks, for instance, could be induced to “melt” from tough biomass into a sugary puddle? That is, to breakdown their cellulosic biomass into a solution of glucose and other sugars. If so, it would be much more cost effective to use corn biomass [...]
