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Xylose To Biofuel With Commercial Yeasts

Posted on Tuesday, February 24, 2009 posted by posted by Mak @ 10:05 PM

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 is an unused waste sugar in the cellulosic ethanol production process. The researchers have recently filed a patent application for their process.

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