Secret for efficient ethanol in cows' stomachs?

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updated 5:24 p.m. CT, Mon., Oct. 6, 2008

Professor: Enzyme that helps digestion could be the key

NEW YORK - Researchers attempting to make the production of corn-based ethanol more efficient may not have needed to leave the farm.

During photosynthesis, corn stores nearly half of its potential energy in places other than the corn kernel, such as stalks and leaves.

An enzyme found in a cow's stomach may hold the key to using all of the plant, rather than just the kernel.

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