Carbohydrate Research Center receives $3 million grant

redandblack.com (University of Georgia)
MARIANNE ENGLISH
Issue date: 3/31/09 Section: News

DARVILLThe University's Complex Carbohydrate Research Center was granted $3.1 million to continue research on complex carbohydrates of plants and various microbes that interact with plants, thanks to the U.S. Department of Energy.

The center also received $20 million of a $135 million BioEnergy Science Center grant in 2007 to study biofuel technology.

"Most plants you see when you look outside are composed of sugars, or complex carbohydrates," said Alan Darvill, plant biology director of the center. "We are trying to develop methods to break down this plant material into sugars that can be fermented into biofuel."

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