Researchers report fermentation breakthrough that unlocks winter barley potential

Biofuels Digest
April 30, 2010 Jim Lane

In Pennsylvania, researchers led by ARS chemical engineer John Nghiem identified a new fermentation process for ethanol using Thoroughbred, a high-yielding winter barley variant – solving a problem with beta-glucan conversion that had been hampering efforts to utilize barkley for fuel and dried distillers grains.

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