How biotech can transform biofuels

By Lee R. Lynd, M. Laser, D. Bransby, B. Dale, B. Davison, R. Hamilton, M. Himmel, M. Keller, J. McMillan, J. Sheehan and 1 more. Nature Biotechnology, 2008

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Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Molecular Biology

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• Biomass pretreatment: fundamentals toward application. (2011, background): “New biotechnological solutions for the decomposition of lignocellulosic biomass are required to improve the production efficiencies and reduce the costs of cellulosic biofuel production (Lynd et al. 2008).”
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