Bacterium from Bay could help to develop cellulosic ethanol

Bay Journal
April 2008
By Karl Blankenship

A type of bacteria taken from the Chesapeake may eventually help prevent pollution from reaching the Bay.

Researchers at the University of Maryland in March said they had developed a new process to convert biomass material into ethanol using a bacteria discovered two decades ago that decomposes marsh grasses in the Bay.

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